Similiar Experience? - Pain returns after 5 year blood patch
 

I was hoping to get some insight from others which might have a similar experience as mine.

When I giving birth to my first child, I had an epidural injected incorrectly into my spine. My husband was in the hospital room and saw the fluid squirt from my back. The Anesthesiologist immediately injected me with another epidural. He then told me I was going to experience a headache the next day.

After the epidural wore off, I did experience severe neck pain and could not lift my head from my bed for 2 weeks. I had 3 spinal taps and they did not work. In time the pain went away.

Five years later, I am having a stabbing pain in the same spot where the epidural was inserted into my spine incorrectly.

Has anyone had this similiar experience and if so, is there treatment for it?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Good grief, that sounds like you went thru a nightmare! It also sounds like that was the FIRST spinal that the anesthesiologist did!!! Shame on him for putting you thru that! :eek:

I've never heard of having a reaction 5 years later. I think probably you have something unrelated going on, but who knows? Is the pain constant? Do you ever get any relief from it? I think I'd ask for some studies to be done, i.e. an MRI with and without contrast material. If this has been going on for quite awhile and it's not getting any better, you need to know what's happening. Talk to your doc about it and see what he'll do for you. Best of luck and let us know what happens. God bless. Hugs, Lee ;)