I had a nerve block on my shoulder (supra-scapular) on 14th Dec, kicked in on 15th, was like
MAGIC! I could lie on my left side, sleep better and 50-75% of my shoulder/back/neck pain including some of the right sided stuff went away.
It lasted a whole 3 weeks
. (which is waaay shorter than they said it would)
Getting into pain management without clashing with work (I lose pay if I don't get to office 2 hours away or other appointments) is proving challenging. I fear it'll be mid-March before I get to talk to anyone.
Pain consultant didn't want me on higher doses of celecoxib (the ones that had any effect, the lower dose was useless).
I'm really struggling, severe pain between 2-4 days a week where I can't sleep and large amounts of codeine wreck my ability to function/work. Diazepam helps a bit but I've rightly got very limited amounts.
If the final pain mgt appt is more than 6 weeks away I'm going back to my GP for ideas cos this is stupid. Also worried pain management won't do radio ablation if it didn't last long enough... Annoying, cos I never expected it to work at all, but to work for tiny periods of time then revert again is almost worse.