here is a link to a previous discussion:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=11446

Hope that helps.

Hello,
On a serious note, is it just going treat the SX? I have been IV'ed and patched. Roz

Hi

Thanks everyone! Hopefully he'll try them. Appreciate the info and links. Buckwheat, I don't know what SX is. He's supposed to try them on his knee.

Teresa

I just wanted to say that SX is the short term for symptoms. Not sure what Roz is trying to say. Anything done so far I think for anyone has only taken care of some of the symptoms or at times put people in remission.

I have put them on my feet, hands, pelvic area, chest, arm anywhere I needed them and they do help.

Tell him to try them at least awhile before he declines them. If we don't try something we don't know what it does for us.

Ada

Lidoacin patches were developed by a doctor I think he was, for his wife's shingles pain.

I ahve used them for years. Slap on on like the ben gay pads you find in the drug store, only instead of the menthol or capsasine being on the treated site, it is lidocaine.

Lidocain will not transfer into the blood if removed in 24 hours if he has that fear.
In more aggressive treatments for RSD Dr.Schwartzman uses a lidocain IV treatment.

For your husbands knee he may have been given it for degenerative.
I save the lidocain patches for cervical hump, and low back, I use biofreeze for my knee. I also have one darvocet to take for it too. Use to have celebrex, but switched to biofreeze and worse days cut in half a lidocain patch, stays on better, last more treatments.

Just some thoughts.
Dianne

Hi Teresa,

Please check your PM's

Di is right, the patches, if removed in less than 24 hours do not go into the blood stream. Reactions can be rare, less than the amount of reactions kids have to peanuts !!
I use at least 3 at one time and have no/zero reactions.

I hope your husband educates himself on using lidoderm patches and if he decides to use them, has great success with local relief with skin pain/burning. Cut one into the size of a silver dollar and check it out. Thse patches even work a little way beyond the sites where
they are placed........All the best to you both, Hope

I also use the patches.
I just wanted to add...It will help if you put some medical tape along the edges to hold them in place.
I had a hard time getting them to stick..Even after wiping the area{s}
down with alcohol.So you might wanna try that.