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Originally Posted by dealingwithtos
Hi Everyone.
I'm hoping that I can get some info from all of you. Just a little background. I've had TOS for about 4.5 years. I had rib resection surgery 8/04. I've just been diagnosed with CRPS, but seems that I've had it since surgery. This is mostly in my left arm, forearm, hand and is now moving to my right arm.
Friday I had a nerve block. This was the most painful procedure I've ever had. The doctor thought I had an abnormal response. But the worst thing is that the nerve block didn't help me at all.
Along with the burning pain, and just plain hurting, I have these horrible muscle spasms. They're mostly at night when I can almost feel the build up of pain and then spasms.
Can anyone relate? What do you use for the pain? I'm currently on 600mg Neurontin X3 day, lidocaine patches and should be starting cymbalta soon. This is just not helping!!!
Any advice would be helpful.
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I had the same thing happen to me last week. Last Thursday I had a lumbar nerve block and right when I woke up I noticed my leg was on fire. I told my nurse and he said it was in my head. I spent that night in the ER. Just to have a doctor look at me like I wasa druggy. Then he gave me 2 shots and sent me home...... My Doc when I saw her on Friday said she has only seen a couple cases where the block caused more pain and tried a block on the nerve in my leg yesterday. It didn't work........ I have to call her tomorrow.... When I woke up I noticed that my leg felt really cold to the touch and my left leg ws room temp. I brought it up to the burse and she said she would ask and my doc walked up and said that it was the rsd acting up....within an hour my leg was on fire again....
