Can't tell you how many of these procedures they did when trying to help the sit-down pain. Bunches of them. And I had one session where they injected so mannnnny triggerpoints along with this. They hurt. But it isn't any more than the back pain you are suffering now. My back pain is reallly bad and it involves the ribs too. I suspect yours is like this also and if you can stand this back pain with no medication (you and I are alike in this) you can tolerate the injections. The effects of the steroids, I'm not sure about. You haven't had any lately, have you?

But I have to tell you, the ones that helped, ..only helped for a short while. But they may be diagnostic. It's a crap shoot. Maybe help, maybe not.

Billye