Re: osteoarthritis
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:48 pm
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
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
I'm sure this improvement lasts. Then again, it seems that you may have 'your solution' if things do change in the future.