Lidocaine infusion

[Fyllida]

Please, has anyone had a good experience with this treatment? All am reading are downers and its so depressing, and confusing, as its been suggested for my condition.

Doesn’t anyone post good reports any more, or is HU only a hub for the negative?

[Clycat]

It did help me significantly for about 2-3 weeks to the extent I could walk almost normally, something I haven't achieved since. Unfortunately I was only allowed one treatment under the NH S in my health authority. I would have had a series of treatments if it was on offer to me.

Definitely give it a try. There isn't much to it, you just lie in the bed and the lidocaine drop feeds into a cannula in the back of your hand. It takes about 90 mins altogether as they put a flush through after the lidocaine. I did go freezing cold and had a muzzy headache but they wrapped me up in blankets and I was completely over that in a couple of hours. Compared to all the treatments I have had, it was the easiest, quickest and very effective (but temporary effect).

Jo

[Fyllida in reply to Clycat]

Many thanks, Clycat, that is reassuring. But 2-3 weeks? How can that help what will be an ongoing and possibly worsening lifetime condition. No healthcare provider, NHS or private, is going to fund that.

Are you saying that a series of treatment builds up a sustained resistance to pain that could be effective for months or, optimistically, years?

[Hidden]

If you’ve asked for people’s experiences and they are mostly bad then you can’t really say that, that’s just what has happened with them.

If it’s not worked then it’s not worked that not their fault and them not lying to you is surely better than lying and telling you yes it works it’s amazing then you having it and it not working.

Unfortunately most people’s chronic pain will never be under control no matter what they do/take and just because people are “negative” about treatments doesn’t mean the whole of the HU site is negative , I actually find this a very positive site and helpful

[Fyllida in reply to Hidden]

So do I, bexamy, and its been incredible not only to write about our probs but to read, try to understand, and sympathise, with those of others.

There cannot be a magic bullet with chronic pain, but by sharing with others one can weave one’s way through, and find suggestions, as to possibilities on a personal level. Ultimately, we have to make the decisions (and accept the mistakes) before chronic pain tightens its grip to such an extent we can no longer see a gap in the curtains.