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maffumatt
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Occipital nerve blockade
* Injection of anesthetic agent and a small dose of steroid into the region of the greater occipital nerve (base of skull) can provide relief averaging 13 days
* Can be performed in an outpatient setting with minimal discomfort for the patient
* Comparable to getting Novocain at the dentist
* More studies are necessary to establish this as a legitimate transitional treatment for cluster headache
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 24th, 2005, 5:04pm » |
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You can see a reference to this at the following link:http://www.brightok.net/~mnjday/chtherapy.pdf
I don't have any personal experience with it.
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 24th, 2005, 5:25pm » |
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There seem to be a few types of nerve injections that provide relief--a newer one that provides longer term relief is described in my post about a page back--Sympathetic Nerve Injection.
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 24th, 2005, 6:26pm » |
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Several peeps here have had this.......
do a search or change the name of the thread to "occipital nerve block" and you'll get way more feedback.
Hope your feelin' good Matt!
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 27th, 2005, 5:15am » |
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I did better with the supra-orbital and supra-trochlear nerve blocks than with the occipital nerve block.
Either way, it is only a temporary reprieve.
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Well I tried it, the shot hurt and it didn't do a damb thing for me. Hope it worked on the others who tried it. None of the preventitives I have tried have helped, if it wasn't for O2 I don't know what I would do. Well I would probably do the same thing I did before I found out what CH was, meaning I would sit and feel sorry for myself and thinking I was a puss for thinking a headache could hurt so bad. On to the next item on the list I guess.
supra-orbital and supra-trochlear nerve blocks
Brought him this to see if it was worth trying. Thanks for the tip
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #6 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 8:53pm » |
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Hang in there, Matt. Have you tried the Kudzu thing yet?
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after I get out of this cycle I plan on trying kudzu on the next one this fall. I would like to be totaly detoxed when I try it. If that doesn't work I am going to try the OTHER alt. But to tell the truth I would suck on a dog turd if i thought it would help.
That will give me more time to watch the kudzu and shroom threads to see how the trials are going.
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 30th, 2005, 2:52am » |
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Hi Maffumatt.
Just though I would put in my 2 cents worth here. I recently had 2 have a few cavities filled (thanks to morphine for a severe lack of saliva). I read in a post to ask for a numbing agent (procaine, xylocaine etc.. without epinephrin) as it can act as a vasodilator. I also had them let me breathe pure o2 instead of the nitrous. Best dentist visit I have ever had and because of the lack of epinephrin the numbness wore off much quicker. Just chiming in! Hope you have great days & nights ahead. Joe
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #9 on: Mar 31st, 2005, 9:53am » |
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:03pm, maffumatt wrote:| But to tell the truth I would suck on a dog turd if i thought it would help. |
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How about a Glyco-dog turd?
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Re: ever hear of this?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 31st, 2005, 10:20am » |
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