Have you been evaluated with ultrasound or MRI? What sort of nerve damage or pain have you been diagnosed with? Do you know exactly what caused the nerve injury?
What have your doctors done as part of your treatment? Doctors often use steroid injections or anesthetic injections into the area to help with the pain. Medications like carbamezepine or gabapentin.
Have you had physical therapy, or was any prescribed for you?
Here's a good page on this kind of pain. It's dense at the top, but if you scroll down you'll find a lot of information in layperson's language. It is divided into specific nerve injuries, how they can be injured and treatments:
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Elsie22,
Have you been evaluated with ultrasound or MRI? What sort of nerve damage or pain have you been diagnosed with? Do you know exactly what caused the nerve injury?
What have your doctors done as part of your treatment? Doctors often use steroid injections or anesthetic injections into the area to help with the pain. Medications like carbamezepine or gabapentin.
Have you had physical therapy, or was any prescribed for you?
Here's a good page on this kind of pain. It's dense at the top, but if you scroll down you'll find a lot of information in layperson's language. It is divided into specific nerve injuries, how they can be injured and treatments:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1234809-overview
I hope others who have gone through this will write and let you know what worked for them.
April 30, 2010 - 9:30amThis Comment
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