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[maryebrown_1]

On 2/25/2014 BonnieBelle said:

On 2/25/2014 MalteseMomma said:

When you get the eppi for childbirth you have to lay flat for 24 hrs after you get it or you will get that headache your daughter got.They told me that over 50 yrs ago when my son was born and I had one. I'm sorry that happened to your daughter.

I never heard of that. I had an epidural during childbirth with my daughter and son and didn't lay flat for 24 hours, I was up and walking around, and never got a headache.

An "epidural" for childbirth is given higher up in the back, low thoracic - I had one when my daughter was born, and it wore off during the delivery...

I wanted an epidural when my son was born, but the hospital stopped doing them due to an impending lawsuit against the anesthesiology team - they "missed" the spot needed and the mom had complications and the baby was in distress...

So, for his delivery I had to get a "spinal", which is much lower down the spine...and I had to lay flat on my back for 6 hours to prevent headaches from the spinal fluid leaking. No problems, but it was a pain using the bedpan while lying flat!

The point is, You do NOT have to lie flat after an epi for childbirth, but a spinal you do.

[TRUE]

On 2/24/2014 jewelfool said:

This is for "back trouble" and nerve pain that runs down into her leg. These are different than the epidurals you have to give birth. It is a combination of corticosteroids and a numbing agent like Lidocaine or something like that to hopefully relieve her back and leg pain. She had back surgery last June on her lower back. She's fully recovered from that but now has degeneration in her upper back. My mother is 82. Sorry I didn't give enough information.

By the way, my daughter had an epidural for childbirth and never will again. They hit the spinal wall or whatever it is and she had a "spinal headache" that kept her flat of her back for over a week. She finally had to go back to the ER and have a spinal patch done to relieve the leaking from the injection.

I have now gone 1 year without getting them every 3 months for 2 years. She should be just fine. You go in get prepped with Verced makes you not really care what they do to you..... take you to the room put you on another gurney on your tummy.....doctor does the epidural....your either moved to a chair basically awake or to the prep room again to have vitals checked, get dressed, and go home....she should be just fine. Mine are for me to avoid back surgery...I WILL not have it and i'm 69. Good luck I feel she will be fine a pain management doctor did mine I adore him. My back got out of line after a 2nd TKR have had both knees done.

My epidurals were all done as out patient at the hospital.

[maryebrown_1]

I worked for an Orthopedic Surgeon for 8 years, and he used to do Epidural Steroid Injections(ESIs) on our back pain patients in the Endoscopy Ctr. He had me schedule them for 7 a.m., an outpatient procedure, and he would spend about 45 minutes w/ the patient doing the procedure. Then he'd come over to the office to see patients for the day. Many of them had relief for several weeks, some for 6 months. We never received any complaints, apparently he was excellent with his skills.

He became so busy with his surgeries that we had to refer our patients to the Pain Clinic, who did these procedures in their office. We received many complaints from our patients that this clinic "lined people up on gurneys" and were doing mass ESI's at the same time. We ended up referring patients to specific Dr's in a Neuro Group who took excellent care for the patients, and some had advanced micro disc surgery with this group with astounding results.

[Kachina624]

On 2/25/2014 tototwo said:

Well, this is all too scary. I was recently diagnosed with bulging disc and pinched nerves in my lower back and my primary doctor referred me to an orthopedic doctor who wants to give me spinal epidurals. I was told it was painless and would "cure" me. Apparently, somebody is lying!

Does anyone have anything good to say about this treatment?

Are you talking about cortisone injections in the spine? About 4 years ago I spent the summer getting them in various locations on first the right, then the left and finally both sides at once. They were not painful but didn't do one bit of good. I have severe spinal stenosis, bulging disk and arthritis in the spine. Now I just grin and bear it.

[bluheart]

I had three epidurals for sciatica/leg pain back in late 2009 into Jan 2010 over the course of three months. Was done on an outpatient basis and did not take very long - maybe 30 mins. Had a local numbing injection. Don't remember what it was. The procedure did not hurt.

It took the three shots to elevate my pain that was not responding to low doses of pain meds. Docs in my area do not believe in high does of pain meds for most people.

Many people in my community have had these shots since there seems to be a great deal of back problems. I've never heard of a bad experience. Maybe it depends on the doctor or hospital/clinic.

I also had a herniated disc in my neck in 2001 and had several epidural shots for pain then too. The procedure did not hurt and it did help my neck.

Again, I believe it depends on the doctor doing the procedure. The first time a neurologist did it, the second time an anethesiologist did it.

I found these shots to be no big deal.

[ThinkOutsidetheBox]

I had a couple of sets of these done by Capitol Spine and Pain in the Northern Va area to see if they would alleviate the swelling from my herniated L5/S1 and thus restore the function to my leg, which had gone numb and lost calf and partial foot function. The injections did not take down the swelling enough to fix the problem, and once I had surgery, that did not fix anything either. In fact, I now have more pain because I developed scar tissue from the surgery, which now presses on nerves and causes pain on the left side of my back (something I did not have before). The lumbar injections are not comfortable, but I have had far worse pain from menstrual cramps. I would certainly not need sedation for the injections, but everyone's pain tolerance is so different. For example, I have had migraines for fifteen years, and my daily back pain is anywhere from a 6-8, however, I do not take daily pain medication. That is just me and my pain tolerance, at least for these two types of pain. I am a complete baby with menstrual cramps though. I will say this, I will not have another surgery and the side effects from the steroids in the injections are what would keep me from having any more of those. Good luck!