New-reaction to nerve block
 

Hello All, I was recently diagnosed with RSD after breaking my foot in a freak accident. I have luckily caught it early so the Pain Mgmt doctor decided to give me a nerve block on Friday. I do find that the sensitivity has gone away so it seems to working for that problem. However, since Saturday I have had a lot of pain in my hip and back (area of the shot). The pain gets so bad that I get nauseous and has now triggered my IBS.

Did anyone else get severe pain in their hip after a nerve block? The doctor's office says it is normal but I don't feel normal.
Thanks for your help and it has helped so much to read other's stories over the past two months.
Theresa

I've had numerous sympathetic nerve blocks and never had severe pain, just sore a couple of times at the injection site.

Was the block done with fluoroscopy?

Nancy

PS: I love Corgi's! We had a Corgi/Beagle mix that was sweetie.

Hi Corgimom and welcome to NT. This is a wonderful group of compassionate, caring friends with a lot of combined experience. I haven't had a block, my RSD wasn't discovered for 4 years. But I do know everyone reacts to meds, treatments in many different ways.
I hope others come on and share their experiences. I do know that some procedures can and do spread the RSD. Even blood draws, dental work, etc. You are very fortunate to get diagnosed early, and hopefully this isn't a spread from the procedure.
Please hand in there and keep researching. RSDSA.org is a wonderful site for the national organization. I attended their annual meeting here in Scottsdale a couple years ago. Also rsdrx.com puzzles list is a wonderful site. Dr. Hooshmand from Florida practiced 40 years in Florida. The puzzles are 150 questions from patients and his answers. I learned so much from this site.
I'm 62, married, one married daughter-15 years with RSD and now full body and internal organ involvment. Have a wonderful Dr. that is a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pharmacologist. His knowledge of neuro-meds, psych helped me get out of the black hole I was in and now sleep 10 hours a night. He does trial studies with pharmaceutical companies and the right combination of meds is critical. He is very conservative with lot of experience.
He just built two clinics in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley with HBOT. I am going to try the HBOT.
One things that has kept me mobile is: physical therapy, massage therapy, and swimming. I do 1# weights nearly dailey, going to try walking, and hope to go back to swimming. pool needs to be 86 degrees. I have one hand that is crippled-delayed diagnosis. My toes were curling up off the floor and my Dr. had me swimming every day curling my toes inward and in 4 months they were touching the floor again. Please don't give up. Dailey exerices is so important.
Please let us know how you are doing, we care, one of your new friends, loretta

hey

I dont have any experience with a block, but my doc recently mentioned this treatment option - i´m not sure if i want this

can anyone tell me more about it, how painful is it? how does my leg feel after the procedure - is the pain comepletly gone afterwards? or only parts of the pain, is the character of the pain anyhow different?

lots of question i know, thank you for answering
xxx

I had a nerve block back in Sept and felt like I had the flu for a few days, but nothing at the injection site. I think I had the most relief in my brain. Relief from the constant zipping back and forth of lightning bolts telling me I was in pain. So I guess I'm saying my brain was much calmer, and I was less cranky.

Hope this too will soon pass for you.
Have a quiet day
pat

Thank you for your information Loretta. I am lucky it was caught within two weeks of my injury as I have an orthopedic who works with Walter Reed and sees it quite a bit over there. I am still having a few issues from the procedure and I hope it is normal side effects than an RSD reaction but we will have to wait and see I guess. Luckily the pain in my hip has dissipated to an ache though my back where they did the injection is quite painful now. I am also sad to say this morning the burning and sensitivity in my foot is back. It did go away for a few days so I was hopeful. I will just have to keep reading and trying to figure what works out for me. I don't think I can do another block given how much pain I have been in this week.

To Leiea: I keep reading that my reaction is not normal of a nerve block and one I had in my neck a couple years back went great so do your research and go with what you feel comfortable and gives you the greatest hope.

Well for me my nerve block which was done with flouroscopy increased my pain in the rsd area it was for. That is why my pain doctor did not have me do the scs with the some fear that it would increase pain instead of settle. I have met others this happened too. My pain doctor said for some people this actually revs the nerves up instead of settling them. This because the pain is in the brain and not in the spine. There is a name for this and that is when pain meds and similar may work better then blocks or other treatments like that. The area in the spine where it was done was tender for me but not so painful. I will say my body even in non rsd areas is so sensitive where things that did not used to cause pain does now. Some may be because I am so careful to not knock any area that my body is not used to any harsh movements or forse. Where is your rsd? What other treatments have you tried and are you on meds? Welcome to the boards though I am sorry for your pain.