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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
Posts: 855
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
Posts: 855
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A bit of good news, temporarily anyway...
Two or slightly more months ago, I was having some of the most intense pain that I have had in the last almost 3 years of this nastiness. New symptoms started by way of intense intermittent burning of the back of my neck and shoulder.
This forced doubling up on more SGB (#12 and 13, I think) but also my PM doc added a suprascapular nerve block. Understand that none of the pain is ever gone at any one time, but the combination of the three seems to have quieted (not eliminated) my arm symptoms for the longest run yet; 2 months! While the intense shoulder burning returned within a week or two, the usual arm and hand symptoms while not gone, are better. Curiously, my symptomatic hand still measures almost 2 degrees C. colder than my good side and of course, still turns funny colors. But I'll gladly take the 2 month dimunition! Of course today my arm did burn and turn red for 5 minutes or so as a reminder that it still lives...
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