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- Feb 23, 2014
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- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 01/2014
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- US
- State
- NC
- City
- Littleton
We all know that pain is something PALS deal with throughout the course of this disease. The loss of muscle mass wrecks havoc with joints and body parts that need support, but pain medication brings a host of nasty side effects.
Matt was having sever pain at the top of the cage put into his back during a spinal fusion. We went to the Duke spine clinic and he had steroid injections in the nerves around that site, and it worked like a charm. They say that when the pain returns they will do an ablation, which should give him about a year.
He was so happy with those results that he went back about hip and leg pains, and will be having two more sets of injections (for pain on his left leg and right hip).
I know the VA would do this, but the wait would be much longer. I guess he'll have to get into the pain clinic there before his insurance stops.
The icing on the cake: they ex rayed his hip in his chair! Brilliant.
LOL....he asked if they could just deaden his sciatic nerve, but apparently that's off limits, so we'll take what we can get!
Becky
Queen of Everything
Matt was having sever pain at the top of the cage put into his back during a spinal fusion. We went to the Duke spine clinic and he had steroid injections in the nerves around that site, and it worked like a charm. They say that when the pain returns they will do an ablation, which should give him about a year.
He was so happy with those results that he went back about hip and leg pains, and will be having two more sets of injections (for pain on his left leg and right hip).
I know the VA would do this, but the wait would be much longer. I guess he'll have to get into the pain clinic there before his insurance stops.
The icing on the cake: they ex rayed his hip in his chair! Brilliant.
LOL....he asked if they could just deaden his sciatic nerve, but apparently that's off limits, so we'll take what we can get!
Becky
Queen of Everything