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Posted: 29 December 2007 at 5:43pm | IP Logged

I have just had my letter regarding my last round of injections. I receive all correspondence with my GP, copied to me. It explains what was injected and the sedatives used etc. I get one every time and this time decided to look up all the different components of my injections. Whilst I was doing the research I found a prolotherapy site and was looking on the section about the side effects (IE increased pain). It said you can take normal painkillers but DO NOT take anti inflammatory. I have never been told this and have been taking 150mg of diclofenac a day at the worst days. This I think explains very well why I am not completely pain free this time.

TBH now I have read it it makes sense. The way prolotherapy works is it cause inflammation to the area and force your body into fixing it. If your body doesn't get chance, it wont work so well. I will be calling the pain unit as I gave them a list of the medication I was on and I was never told not to take the diclofenac.

However good news - I have been having my injections at 4 month intervals which means that I have approximately 1 month where the pain gets steadily worse. This time I am down to have a 12 week gap which means I shouldn't have too much pain in between!

I also looked into the ingredients and was a little shocked to read the average dose of the sedative I have is 1-2mg with a max of 2.5mg for a normal healthy adult. I receive 3mg for my injections which goes to show how painful they are. At least I know they are doing all they can!

The other ingredients are a local anesthetic, a steroid (in smallish doses) and a glucose solution - known as an irritant, which is what causes the extra inflammation.

Posted: 29 December 2007 at 6:54pm | IP Logged

Madz i would def raise the issue of the diclafenac. I was given these when my hip was bad but i hadn't had injections.

I'm glad you won't be in as much pain though before the next injections.

To be honest we could all look at the pro's and con's of these kind of things but if we didn't have them we wouldn't feel better for how ever long they work.

If you are worried get onto them straight away. xxxxx

Posted: 31 December 2007 at 6:21am | IP Logged

Argh!!!

This sounds like torture!!!  I rely on my cocktail of drugs to help me get through....hmmm sounds like they're not giving you the full picture hun.... i'll be adding it to my list of questions to ask if and when i get an appointment!

Posted: 31 December 2007 at 8:47am | IP Logged

Its good that you now know and you can talk to the pain clinic.  Maybe the next time the injections will work fully?