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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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Originally Posted by Sonny1
No, I do not get any sedation or IV. I literally go in the room, lie on the bed, they insert the needle with the tube at the end (to plunge stuff through it) plunge the stuff through it, they sit me up for about 2 minutes, walk me to a "recovery room" where I sit in a chair with ice on my neck for about 20-30 minutes and then they release me to my ride! The whole thing takes about 5 minutes. I can handle the needle, it is the fear of it going in the front of my neck. The uncomfortable part is feeling the liquid being flushed through the tube into my body! I have had several different "side effects" and sometimes none. Numb hand, arm, head, chest, droopy eye, red face, headache, hot face, glassy eye, stuffy nose, hoarse throat, cough. Sometimes some of these are mixed with others, sometimes by themselves, sometimes none at all!
Everyone is different!
Good luck!
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Hmmm....not sure how to address this all. I have had probably 19 or so stellate blocks starting June 2008; 1 month after the shoulder arthroscopy that started this. I usually get 2 or 3 a few days to a week apart and they last in a diminishing fashion for 3 to 5 months. By then, I am screaming for more. I hate the side effects! But as much as I hate the Horner's syndrome, it is temporary and reassuring to me that the block was spot on.
My PM doc is great....very aware and concerned that I am comfortable and not moving (that part is better for his work!) so I am sedated nicely I might add so I have never seen the needle targeted for my throat and would probably head for the hills if I did. They are always done under fluoroscopic guidenance and would never consider it being done any other way. Accidents increase without imaging. I usually get a suprascapular nerve block at the same time and am awake for that, somewhat.
When it comes to temperature awareness, it is all over the board. As with many here I am sure, cold weather or air blowing across my arm is just really heinous and sends me into seemingly Tourettic gyrations. When the blocks have mostly worn off, I cannot hold onto a warm cup o' Joe for very long before it "feels" like it is scalding my hand. Very weird and a waste of good coffee, no doubt.
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