I have a very specific ? for the cold pain from PN. Does anyone have any experience good or bad w/ sympathetic nerve blocks at the ankle or toes to treat this type of pain, not the tingling, burning or lancinating pains but the cold? This was recommended to me as a last resort, everything else either having failed or in the process of doing so.
Thanks
Alkymst

but IF it's anything like IVIG [really, an invasive procedure] and one involving either injecting joints or directly adjacent or into nerve fibres...I really would like to check out the overall stats for success rates..

Found this site:
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/healt...=4417&src=news
And one aspect of the procedures described is the fourth s/e under 'side effects'. I suspect that can be translated into permanent damage. If what I have is considered 'temporary' {BAH!} I sure would hate to know what permanent is?
I guess it's because I feel that as long as I can FEEL those nerves protesting, that I can HOPE that they are healing. But, I sure wish they would let up their protest once in a while, for just a little bit! - j

If you do it, I sure would want to hear all about it!

Dahlek for the CC link, yes it is invasive, direct injection to the nerve to block the pain signal as I'm sure you know. Haven't found a lot published about this so I was hoping maybe someone on the forum had experience I could draw from. I'm not anxious to do this but it was suggested only if everything else failed.

Thanks again for the info

Alkymst

What's the difference between a sympthetic nerve block and a trigger point injection??

Thanks, Melody

and irritated area, either muscle or nerve

http://www.fpnotebook.com/RHE34.htm

This is one insurance company's viewpoint on the subject:
http://medpolicy.bluecrossca.com/pol...njections.html

Having had 'knots' and 'trigger points' both due to muscular injuries in a past life...there is a world of difference between the total nerve involvement and those knots! With carpal it 'ends' somewhere clearly.
Knots for example can be felt when one has carpal tunnel. Whole nerve irritation is just that...goes from head to toe almost ending w/the most pain either in the head, toe, or at the spinal connectors... At least, that's my take on it. - j

A trigger point injection is a knot???

Now I'm confused. My sister-in-law goes for them every three months for her Morton's Neuroma.

The doctor is giving her knots in her trigger point injection?? Is this right??

Melody