Originally Posted by JAPOOTER

The same doctor that I seen Friday did the nerve test today. All he was checking for was to see if the tingling and numbness in my fingers was maybe being caused by a pinched nerve in my neck or if it was coming from my wrists such as the onsetting of carpel tunnel syndrome so the test was only from sholder to finger tip. Left side was normal and my right side is .3dB from being considered with carpel tunnel. (I believe he said it was .3dB being that a nerve test is noise in the muscles I am sure that is what I heard). He said that passing the test was both good and bad news. It's good becasue I passed but it's bad becasue now he cannot narrow down the cause further yet. So with that being said, he doesn't know what is causing the tingling and numbness in my fingers but we decided not to worry about it right now because it's not painful.

My shoulders took the cortisone injections well and feel pretty good for now so we are going to focus on the neck only for now. The trigger point injections I received Friday seemed to have helped. My headache let up to a point that I could actually concentrate on something so that is a plus. Today I received 6 more trigger point injections on the left side of my neck as he decided to stay away from the right today because after the injections on Friday, I woke Saturday moring with a major knot in my right shoulder. By the afternoon it had released itself. Doctor said that could have been a residual effect of the injections and just decided not to go onto that side today with any other injections. He said for now he feels that we may be on to something so long as these injections keep giving me some relief. He said that if they quit working the next steps are more invasive. I chose to end that conversation for now and said that we could resume if it would have to come to that later. I sort of don't want to know a next step at this point. For now I am satisfied with what is going on.

He said he would call me in a few days and see how I am feeling and schedule me for additional trigger point injections if I think they are needed. 3 days in between visits really isn't a long enough track record to determine if these trigger point injections are working or if they will continue to work so we'll just see what happens later this week without having any more until then at least. I certainly hope this type of treatment continues to help. I know that I have read a lot of blogs and such on these sort of treatments and they don't seem to have a very long lasting effect on a lot of people but I seem to be having fairly good luck with it so far. Only time will tell. I'll update as things change for better or worse. Take care.

Originally Posted by Leesa

Awww NUTS! I was hoping the trigger points would work. Well, maybe the facets will work. I had them, but they didn't work for me. None of the injections worked for me, but I'm VERY hard to medicate. My pain doctor got very frustrated with me, and eventually "fired" me. He just couldn't figure out anything that would help me anymore, so he just 'got rid' of me. Nice, huh?

I sure hope the facet injections are the answer for you. You've suffered long enough. Keep us posted -- I appreciate your updates. Take care & I'll be looking for your next update. Hugs, Lee