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Travis1980
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Doc recommends neck injection
« on: Jan 21st, 2008, 10:54pm » |
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Hey guys,
I saw my neurologist today and she wants me to come in next week and get two injections in my neck and temple that are a mixture of things including Lidocaine and Pitcher plant extract. has anyone ever heard of this? She said that this has broken cycles in some of her patients.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #1 on: Jan 22nd, 2008, 4:32am » |
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Sounds like nerve blocks which work for some and not for others. Usually, it is done with a mixture of lidocaine and a steroid such as dexamethasone. I haven't heard of using Pitcher Plant extract before, although in reading about the pitcher plant, it would appear that the doc would be using the extract for anti-inflammatory purposes.
What the hell, right? Give it a shot (no pun intended) and see how it works. Please report your experiences with it for others to see.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #2 on: Jan 22nd, 2008, 7:20am » |
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I'll let you know how it goes.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #3 on: Jan 22nd, 2008, 7:36am » |
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Good luck Travis!
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #4 on: Jan 22nd, 2008, 7:46am » |
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Good luck mate.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #5 on: Jan 23rd, 2008, 1:54pm » |
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Hello Travis,
I tried neck injections (Lidocine and Triamcinolone)twice
first time I thought it help me.
My CH stopped in a week. At that time I didn't know it was CH (it was the usual end of cluster, in my case it lasts about 3-4 weeks).
Next time I tried it when my next cluster started and it didn't help at all.
Steroid are even more dangerous for health than verapamil and sumatriptan all together.
I DO NOT recommend it.
PS Have you ever seen a singe article in the internet that says that Pitcher plant helps in case of CH?
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #6 on: Jan 23rd, 2008, 2:01pm » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2008, 1:54pm, vitaliy.se wrote:
Steroid are even more dangerous for health than verapamil and sumatriptan all together.
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Not nessesarily true. Depends on how the steroids are administered.
I use a predisone taper evey cycle and it has saved me from prolonged agony many many times.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #7 on: Jan 23rd, 2008, 4:01pm » |
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Haven't heard about pitcher plant extract either, but did come across this:
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Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2004 Dec;8(6):427-34.
Biologic poisons for pain.
... Sarapin, derived from carnivorous pitcher plants, has been injected for regional analgesia in human and veterinary medicine, but efficacy is controversial. ...
PMID: 15509455
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Looking at some of the other research, it doesn't seem that adding Serapin makes a nerve block any more effective, but it doesn't seem to hurt, either.
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #8 on: Jan 23rd, 2008, 8:56pm » |
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Sounds like another torture therapy from the marvelous world of science.
Good luck
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #9 on: Jan 24th, 2008, 4:46pm » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2008, 2:01pm, chewy wrote:
Not nessesarily true. Depends on how the steroids are administered.
I use a predisone taper evey cycle and it has saved me from prolonged agony many many times.
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I'm not telling steroids will kill you at once. But in general they cause more harm then O2, verapamil and sumartiptans all together(unless you have heart problems).
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Re: Doc recommends neck injection
« Reply #10 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:21am » |
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I have had three or four of these neck injections. They stopped my attacks for hours.
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