Originally Posted by catra121

I just got a LSB yesterday and I was wondering if anyone was willing to share what it feels like with me. I'm looking to see what it was like for people where it was successful and for those where it wasn't. The LSB didn't help with my pain at all and I was knocked out completely for it. While I was recovering, I had numbness from my hip down to the top of my knee for about 30 minutes and then that was gone. From the moment I woke up and tried to move my ankle the pain was just as bad as before the procedure. My left foot was bright red and warm (which the doctor said made it a "textbook" sympathetic block). I had terrible chills while recovering for about an hour afterwards (although that could just be because hospitals are cold but I was shivering violently and I wan't doing that before the procedure) and that caused the pain in my ankle to worsen for a while. About an hour and a half after the procedure I was back home and the pain was so bad in my ankle that I just laid on the couch and did not get up for a long while...not until this morning really. The pain actually felt worse than before the procedure. But regarding the procedure itself and what you felt right afterwards...what was that like?