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Originally Posted by Jyes
Next Tuesday afternoon, I will get the ESI on T8/9 and I guess the Lumbar area will be next, but hoping to hold off on that till after the holidays.
Oh, one other thing, I was given the usual instructions on no food or drink after midnight, no aspirin, and so forth.
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Hi Jyes~
I'm having an ESI tomorrow at 1pm at Mayo in Rochester, MN. Since I'm going to be wide awake, I have no food or drink limitations.
I've had facet injections before, but this is my first ESI. Mine's at L4/5, and it sounds like a piece of cake compared to your T8/9! Oh my! I can see why you would be sedated for that one!
They won't sedate you for the lumbar ESI though, will they? I just had this discussion with my doctor 2 weeks ago when I had my facet injections. I had heard on here (the forums) about people getting sedated (or versed?) before getting injections, and asked why Mayo doesn't do that.
He had many answers; the main one was patient safety. It's safer without, costs less for them, quicker for them, less people in the OR--less chance for infection..... That's all I can remember, but there were more. I just found this interesting and thought I'd pass it along.
Good luck with your injections.
Hugs,
Jan
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