Upper Back Pain, Thoracic
Welcome to Spine-health’s Upper Back Pain patient community. You can also read doctor approved Upper Back Pain Articles and watch Upper Back Pain Videos.
- Most Popular Upper Back Pain Articles
- All About Upper Back Pain
- Causes of Upper Back Pain
- Most Popular Upper Back Pain Videos
- Back Pain Video: When Should I See a Doctor for Treatment?
- Treatment for Back Pain Flare-Ups Video
December 30, 2011 - 9:23am
Trigger pt Injections and Mid Back Pain
I have been having mid and upper back pain for some time now. My fusion was successful in helping the severe neck and shoulder blade pain, as well as the arm weakness, but it seems to have made the mid back pain worse. This is pain along the lower half of the thoracic spine that is always there but gets worse throughout the course of the day. By the evening, especially if I have had an active day, I will have pain wrapping around my ribs- on both sides. I have tried lower back and neck PT (2 months of each), meds and trigger point injections. I got 4 trigger point injections 2 days ago. Yesterday evening my pain was even worse than it has been, that was about 30 hours since the injections. Does this mean it is not helping? Or does it take longer than that to start working? One thing that was odd... Of the 4 injections one I did not feel even a prick. I felt nothing. 1 hurt moderately, and the other 2 barely hurt at all. Any idea what that means? If you had TP injections did you feel them? I am starting to think the pain is actually coming from my shoulders. When I use my TENS unit and put it over the area of the mid back pain, it feels too low, when I put it in my shoulder, upper back area it seems to help. Everything feels lower if that makes sense.
Anyway, what I am asking is... Have you ever had trigger point injections? I believe it was a steroid that was injected. Did they help? Did they hurt? How long did it take before it started working? Has anyone had mid back pain like this?
Thanks!
_____________
24 years old. Started having neck and shoulder pain around age 18.
ACDF C4-C5 June 23rd, 2011.
User login
advertisement
New forum topics
Clinical Trials
Who's online
There are currently 8 users and 619 guests online.
Connect with Us
lumbar trigger point injections last spring using local anesthetic. It did nothing, but cause me more pain for about 3-4 weeks.
Sorry that I did not have better news to report on them.
I have had endless number of trigger point injections. They can be given in groups, I've had up to 6 at one time.
Its not steroids like spinal injections. Its a cooling anesthetic that hopefully can calm down an irritated area. I have always had good success with trigger points. They wont eliminate the problem, but sometimes, it can calm things down enough for you to continue to manage the pain.
One thing for sure, after any trigger point, ICE, ICE and more ICE for at least 15 minutes to the area that was injected.
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Unfortunately I don't think it helped. It seems to kind of flared everything up!
24 years old. Started having neck and shoulder pain around age 18.
ACDF C4-C5 June 23rd, 2011.
Life is not a sanjoseasianescorts trap set for us by God so that he sanjoseasianescorts Life is not a spelling puzzle, where no matter how many words youve gotten right, you're disqualified if you make one mistake. Life is sanjoseasianescorts more like a baseball season, where even the best sanjoseasianescorts team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose.
BANNED FOR EXCESSIVE SPAM
Over the course of 2 years of treatment, I've lost count of the number of injections, RFL, etc, that i've received. I did not have any relief with any of those types of treatments. Typicall, after each injection or treatment, the spot was worse for 1 day or sometimes 2 but I don't recall any additional pain or discomfort beyond 2 days. My doc did say that i could take some OTC meds except aspirin or blood thinning agents. Your pharmacist can probably offer a suggestion or two. Have you called your doc to ask for advice? In my case, my PM doc said he had to go through each of those treatments, even though he knew that would NOT work, because my medical insurance required certain steps before he could do anything else. However, I'm still waiting for that "something else" that he thought was going to help with my pain! LOL Good luck.