This was a first. It was dexamethasone sodium phosphate lidocaine. I looked it up and the first three words are a cancer treatment or an anti-inflammatory treatment. In fact, there's so many things that this injection is for, and the side effects are nasty. But Alan explained to the doctor about the pain between his toes (and I've asked him this question before about trigger point injections) but he always said "it would not work in Alan's case), so why he did it today is beyone me but let me tell you, ALAN WAS A DIFFERENT MAN when he walked out of that office. For the first time in 20 years he had no pain in certain toes.

He said "OMG, can I do this all the time"? and the doctor simply said "Let's start with this and see where it takes us.

Well, as I watched him give Alan the injections, he asked him which foot is the worst and Alan said "the right foot", so he gave him more stuff in the right foot, than in the left foot.

The right foot was fine until 9:30 p.m. He got the shot at 2:30 p.m. So for those hours, he was a happy man. The left foot wore off sooner. Maybe 2 hours or so, but the right was fine until a few minutes ago. I just asked him "is your right foot very bad right now and he said 'no". So maybe the effects are still going on.

But today was his first real pain free day since he was on the Fentanyl pain patch 10 years ago.

I'm not finding that much info on this injection. And obviously it's not a permanent solution. But what if......? Wouldn't that be something?

Melody