osteoarthritis

[Joyh]

Hi all
There`s lots of news from this end, my steroid jab into the sacroiliac is on Monday.
I`m to go to our local city hospital as a day release patient, with my daughter or husband picking me up later. The info says it`s common for the pain to flare after the injection, so I`m glad I`m aware of that and I`ll have tramadol at the ready!

I wanted to share that I eventually saw a PT who wasn`t really up to speed on the pudendal nerve, but she was at least pelvic floor trained.
while I was there she examined me internally, found a small `tight` spot, and gently pressed it for a few seconds.
I was fine and it didn`t hurt all of that day- but boy did I know about it the next!!
I was 5 days on tramadol, paracetamol, ice followed by heat and Still it hurt. This was the 1st time that I had `saddle pain` and thought I`d made a terrible mistake by allowing the albeit, well meaning physio to touch me. I was most concerned that I wouldn`t be able to calm the pain back to bearable again.
If I ever needed proof that this was PN, this was it!
But after about a week, I noticed that the nerve didn`t seem to be hurting AT ALL.
You may understand that it`s `there` in the background but I`m not sure if that`s just me being paranoid, or not daring to hope- or is the nerve actually there ready to kick off at the slightest provocation?
Since then I`ve only had tramadol for back pain, understandable considering the steroid jab I`m having on Monday for common old arthritis- then I got brave and have begun to reduce my pregabalin from 600mgs a day to now 400mg.
So far I`m fine on this amount and hope to reduce it a bit more next week.
I swore and declared that if I ever found relief from that horrible pain, I`d post .....and here I am posting that news.

I`m not ready to post in the success story section just yet as I`d prefer a few months pain free 1st. But considering I couldn`t even sit 6 months ago and now after taking pregabalin, tramadol and listening to the advice on here about using ice and now I`m almost pain free, seems worth sharing.
Whether the pelvic floor therapist helped with her internal manipulation of that tight spot or whether it was the 5 days of constant ice packs/heat I don`t know?
I just remembered I used a tens unit during that painful week too - so it may`ve been that?
I`ve seen the therapist again - with no examination this time but an assurance I can see her again, if I need to, after the steroid jab.
I`ll come back and let you all know how it`s going.
take care
Joy

[helenlegs 11]

Lovely to hear Joy I'm sure this improvement lasts. Then again, it seems that you may have 'your solution' if things do change in the future.
Great stuff
Take care,
Helen