Trigger Point Injections

[Guest guest]

Hi

Have any of you ever had trigger point injections? Are they very painful? One

person has told me they are and I'm not sure I can endure any. But yet, I really

need some relief in my knee's and shoulder. Doc thinks my knee's have torn

tendons and my shoulder, we aren't sure, except the x-ray comes out fine on it.

My knee's hurt so bad, I have to take so much pain medicine to get any relief

and that isn't good. I want to be nearly pain free in them without having to

take so much medicine. I've had steroid injections in them both and it doesn't

help anymore, plus you can only have that do so many times. And I am diabetic,

so there is risk of infection, not to mention what steroids do to blood sugar

levels.

Doc increased my long acting Morphine yesterday. This will help my overall pain

some. We went up another 30mg and will go higher if needed and I can tolerate

it. He once took me up to 200mg 3x's a day and it was too much. I was totally

drugged, and I can't handle that. So we backed off.

Please let me know what you all know. Thank you

Hugs,

~Tommie

[Guest guest]

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Tommie wrote: Hi

Have any of you ever had trigger point injections? Are they very painful? One

person has told me they are and I'm not sure I can endure any. But yet, I really

need some relief in my knee's and shoulder. Doc thinks my knee's have torn

tendons and my shoulder, we aren't sure, except the x-ray comes out fine on it.

My knee's hurt so bad, I have to take so much pain medicine to get any relief

and that isn't good. I want to be nearly pain free in them without having to

take so much medicine. I've had steroid injections in them both and it doesn't

help anymore, plus you can only have that do so many times. And I am diabetic,

so there is risk of infection, not to mention what steroids do to blood sugar

levels.

Doc increased my long acting Morphine yesterday. This will help my overall pain

some. We went up another 30mg and will go higher if needed and I can tolerate

it. He once took me up to 200mg 3x's a day and it was too much. I was totally

drugged, and I can't handle that. So we backed off.

Please let me know what you all know. Thank you

Hugs,

~Tommie