I went for my post lumbar injections appointment today. I am still in a neck brace although that is for my cervical surgery on Jan 7th. At least it is just a soft collar now.
As far as the injections , they did take care of my foot numbness, did not take care of my lower back pain or my horrible right hip/buttocks pain.The shots did take care of some of my muscle weakness in my legs as well. My doc still does not want to do more surgery on me. He said I have had a lot, he does not want me to loose more motion. He cannot pin point a definite area for the pain i am having.
So he prescribed 3 weeks of physical therapy and then i go back to see him. At that point if my hip/butt is still bad he will give me a shot in the office. And who know what else.
I was really hoping he would go to surgery (i know i am nuts, but it cured my horrible thoracic pain) and get rid of this pain. I'm really tired of it and the lower back pain.
judy