The day before yesterday I got two steroid epidurals in the right L3 and L4 spots. I had NO lumbar pain yesterday! So far today I have no lumbar pain.
I have had at least 20 epidurals over several years and this is the true first time that I think they worked. I so so so do hope that this lack of pain continues. I love it.
I swam in the beach yesterday--easy stuff--kicking on my back with fins--rehabbing the back little by little. No back problems at all in a vigorous swim through some rough surging waves. I walked back to the car straight up and pain free. I'll probably get in the water later today.
I don't know if this means that the needle and medicine landed in the exact nerve spots that needed to be treated. I do know that I had brief extreme nerve pain that radiated down my right leg when the 2 shots were being injected. I'm talking a few seconds of intensity, then back to okay. I always get the little bit of midazolam and fentanyl IV.
I wonder if other patients have had that experience of the sensation that the doctor hit the best spot. Usually I have a sensation that the needle and medicine is in the general area.
Maybe the fluoroscopy view is better sometimes than others; maybe things shift around back there. Well, I'm sure that there IS shifting around because pain areas vary from hours to hours and from days to days.
Enough of my pain-free rambling.
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