Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD and CRPS) Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type I) and Causalgia (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type II)(RSD and CRPS)


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Old 03-16-2007, 10:29 PM #1
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Default Lidocaine patch experiences?

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My husband saw our pain management doctor today. He suggested lidocaine patches. As with everything new, my husband is hesitant. He's fearful that it will make him worse in some way. If you've tried them, can you tell me what your experience was?

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there is no way lidocaine patches will make anything worse.

It is only lidocaine on the surface of the skin.

I used 3 a day on my left ankle and left them on for 24 hrs - not the 12 they recommend and not 1 bad thing ever happened to me.(except for my dog eating used ones!)


Tell him to try them - they won't hurt him at all. They won't take the pain away completely but may dull it a bit.

Peace and hope,
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Default Hi Teresa,

Like Lisa, I wear them a lot. I love them. I slap one on where ever I am in pain and they do help calm the worst pain area. I sometimes wear three also.
I think they are one of our best assets for helping the pain. I haven't seen any side effects either and that's saying a lot for me.

I think anything that helps without having to injest it is something worth trying.

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here is a link to a previous discussion:

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

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

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Default Hi 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.

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Lightbulb patches

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.

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Default Lidoderm

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
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