i'm glad they did the patch and you're feeling better.
and good for the drs to learn from your experience.

I completely understand what you are going through!
I had my second LP on Monday (first one a year ago without incident), had severe spinal headache for 4 days and I too had to have a blood patch just yesterday. Ugh - now that was a traumatic procedure compared to the LP! Thank God my headache is gone, but now my back is KILLING me today - I feel like I threw my lower back out. It's good to hear that the pain goes away though. This is definitely no fun! Advil has become my very good friend this week. :)

Feel better,Carisa. I remember well that terrible spinal headache post LP. I knew nothing about the blood patch then, it was 1999, didn't have the internet yet.