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Originally Posted by liz0688
I had the epidural block a year ago, the five day one, and I had the same reaction as you!! I had exsteme burning as if he was injecting acid.
The block was supose to go into my RIGHT foot, ok, I could feel the medication going into my back and down into my right leg but it felt just like acid, and did it burn.!! I had to have two vicodans right away and then a shot of morphine and it didnt even touch the pain I was feeling. By the time I left that day, my entire left leg was numb! This was suppose to be a five day ephy two! By the time I got home that night, my left leg, my whole waist area, my right arm and the right side of my face where numb! The next morning I went back to the doctor because he wanted to try more of the injection being it was to be a five day ordeal. As soon as he started the medicine again my right leg started burning, he imediatley stopped and said he had never seen this kind of reaction. My left leg took a year or more to get the feeling back in it and now I have rsd there too which my doctor will not acknowledge to this day. Now I have rsd on the entire right side of my body and still in my left foot, the doctor says its impossible that he didnt do it, and rsd dosent spread, lol
sorry so long guys, feel better ok,
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Was it an epidural injection they did on you or a lumbar sympathetic nerve block??? Apparently, they are two different things and they inject different meds. I had an epidural injection for severe back pain about 7 years ago. They made me worse, so I quit after the 2nd one (they're supposed to be given in sets of three). I've never heard of them doing epidural injections so close together as they did yours. What kind of doc was giving them???
They actually had me pretty well out of it for my sympathetic block yesterday. I don't remember a thing. I "woke up" and didn't know where I was. I have no recollection of getting off the table into the wheelchair. I just remember itching like CRAZY all over.
I still choose to be "optimistic" today. I don't think I'm worse than I was.....I may be a bit better. I survived my hair appointment on Advil alone. Toes feel like ice, ankle throbbing some......could be the shoe and sock I was wearing. Tonight will be the true test......symptoms ALWAYS worse at night.
I am so sorry for your experience. It scares me to death to have another one done because I know that any one of them could end up like that. Of course, I have to weigh my current abilities (which are few) against the risks. I MUST do whatever I can to hopefully allow myself to stand or be upright for longer than 10 minutes. I have to walk very slowly anyway so it's like "dog minutes" as it is (I used to scurry everywhere I went.....now it takes 5 times as long to do the simplest things).
How are you now??? You mentioned your RSD spread. Have you switched docs (I hope so)??? How long have you had it??? I wish you the best of luck and progress.