Thankfully I haven't had to have one in awhile. But yes, I was upset as well when I was told that! If and when the next time comes, I am definitely going to talk to my doctor because they are very painful. The sacroiliac injections are no picnic, but then...none of them are.

All I know is that's what they said here. As I recall it seemed as if they were lumping all insurances together by saying "Insurance won't pay for it."

Really, why put anyone in great discomfort if it can be avoided, I don't get it!

I guess I wasn't paying attention. I thought someone said that the facet injections were different from the ESI's.

I've been reading a bit from different pain management sites and I'll be darned if the majority of them DO use sedation for their patients. In fact, I printed several of them and next time I'm near the hospital, I'm going to drop them off at the Pain Mangement Clinic!

Sorry (((Jillybean))). Didn't mean to go so off-track with your thread. As you can see a lot of people have these done and survive. And most of mine have been very successful. Apparently I have a barbaric pain managment clinic here.