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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Paradise
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Location: Paradise
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Originally Posted by LIT LOVE
It's really not that simple.
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I would agree. It is not entirely possible to know if ones pain is SIP or SMP as there is no definative test for such. SGB's are a "way" to sometimes help deliniated the issue. And I would hardly agree to any statement that one SGB is diagnostic of one type or the other. I can't make the call for you, but at least for me, I needed close to 6 or so SGB's before I could make the decision that they definitively worked for me or did not. And while I am not pain-free, my pain is much better than it was in comparison to the pre-SGB days. I get SGB's (2-3 at a time) about every 4 or 5 months. I feel (trending) better in the 1 month post-block and then variable at 2-3 months post-block and then miserable by 3-4 months. And then just like the movie "Groundhog Day," I get another series and life goes on in a better way. I understand that everyone's experience is different and I am both happy and (feel) guilty that my situation temporarily improves with intervention while others do not but I guess my point is that one should not shoot down the procedure after only one attempt!
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