Pain Management

Hi all,

I had my first pain management visit today. I had an occipital nerve block and started on duragesic pain patch...Hopefully it starts working soon. After the nerve block I felt pretty good-but it didn't last long. Did anyone else have the same experience?

Off to bed (not even 8 pm) oh, well...Maybe tomorrow will be a better day

Sara

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Hi Sara,

When I had the Greater Occipital Nerve block it took 24 hours to take full effect. Unfortunately for me the full effect wore off after 2 weeks. I do know that other sufferers have found that it's effects do last much longer than that.

As far as the duragesic patch is concerned I am afraid I have had no experience with that.

When I had the GONB I was in a bad attack which I had been in for 9 hours at the time of injection. After 3 hours the attack suddenly lifted, but then it does that quite often anyway, so it could have been the GONB or it could have been the attack lifting naturally anyway.

Interestingly when I have a severe attack like that I always have one exactly 24 hours later, and then quite often a further 24 hours later after that, and the next day I did but it was very muted and the pain levels were not nearly so high! The third day the attack was missing altogether!!!

I hope this works for you Sara. Take care

Ann

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