I am so glad to have found this forum. I was diagnosed with ON stemming from a car accident over 7 months ago. I've had headaches/neck pain ever since the day after the accident.

I'm finally seeing a pain specialist after all this time and last friday I had my second round of Facet Blocks. They put me under a general anesthesia for the procedure. My PS tells me that he usually see's a 70%-80% improvement by the 2nd procedure. Unfortunately for me, the relief is only temporary and I go home with more neck pain then when I walked in there. It takes quite a few days to get even a little better, but by that time I'm in the office for my next set of injections (once a week for 3 weeks).

Has anyone else experienced this with the Facet Blocks? Little to no relief? I feel like my Dr's aren't actually listening to me when I'm telling them where it hurts. I really just want this to go away.. I can hardly remember what it's like to live day to day w/o some sort of neck/head pain.

Has anyone had a different procedure done to which they received a more noticeable result (relief)?

Thanks,
Lisa