Divora, happy your treatment went well for you! Monkey hellion...that's funny!

I was just wondering, why is that they use local anesthesia on some people and they put others under for epi's? Mine is scheduled for 1/9 and I will be put under for it. I've already been told by the ortho and the pain specialist that it most likely not help, but trying to give me some relief until I can find a neurosurgeon willing to operate on someone w/o insurance. But I digress.....anyone know why sometimes they use local anesthesia and other times general??