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Title: Occipital nerve block Post by vegas1002 on Jun 26th, 2007, 6:39pm I am sure with all the veterans here that someone has tried this treatment before. I have had eposidic clusters for 31 years and yesterday was the first I have heard of this. The neuro did it for me and I was PF all night - couldn't believe it. It's like someone is playing a joke on me and I am just sitting around waiting for the big one to hit. The neuro said it could last 2 months! Has anyone had any luck with this nerve block before? If so, did it really last for 2 months? Wishing for everyone here to be PF. Alex |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by UN solved on Jun 26th, 2007, 6:47pm Yes, I've had it done many times. I read that if it does work, on average it works for just over 2 weeks. ( Sorry, no link. I think the info came from MHNI ). But it certainly is possible that it could help for longer. My first one worked and lasted 17 days ... all later tries failed. ON blocks have a mixture of drugs in them ... one of those drugs is usually a steroid, which may provide temporary relief alone. If ON blocks are tried several times and are effective, an Occipital nerve stimulator may be beneficial. Goodluck UNsolved |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by horsegirl on Jun 26th, 2007, 11:07pm is this nerve block a pill or implant or what? |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by UN solved on Jun 26th, 2007, 11:18pm on 06/26/07 at 23:07:31, horsegirl wrote:
It's a shot in the back of the head/neck area, in the Occipital nerve region, with a mixture of medications. UNsolved |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by taraann on Jun 27th, 2007, 6:21am First time for me it did not work. The second time it possibly worked but I was also on DHE at the time and on a very LONG bad run of out of control hits and had been inpatient for 2weeks so I'm still not sure to this day if it was the block, or what (i doubt it was the DHE cause i was on it for 2weeks at that point already) so it was either the block or the CH just decieded to give me a break. Either way this babble ends with I had a week - week and a half break if I recall correctly. Horsegirl, it's a very simple, painless (in my book anyways) needle in the back of your head that makes your head feel numb on that side. I heard a pop sound when they inserted the needle and felt the numbless crawl my head and then it was over. Sometimes they doe it twice to be sure (atleast that was the case with me) Then it's over and you go home. |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by vegas1002 on Jun 27th, 2007, 8:10am Well I found out last night - it didn't work for me afterall. I had 2 hits last night 8/9k. So depressing. I had so much hope since i didn't get any the night the neuro did the block. Alex |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by horsegirl on Jun 27th, 2007, 1:54pm im super sorry to here that vegas,i was in the er one time5 years ago and a er doc said he could give me a shot in the back of my head,that must be what he was trying to say,but i said no because just a minute before that an elderly nurse tried to give me a imatrex shot in my temple and my husband stopped her,she never gave one before.so i thought they were all crazy and left. |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by DennisM1045 on Jul 4th, 2007, 8:04am That's too bad Vegas. I'm sorry it didn't work. The beast is insidious like that. Almost like it knows you've tried something new, allows you to believe it worked only to crush you the next night. Hang tough. Keep fighting. -Dennis- |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by E-Double on Jul 4th, 2007, 8:18am still got spanked |
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Title: Re: Occipital nerve block Post by DannyV on Jul 9th, 2007, 4:45pm What is DHE? |
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