How often are yours? I do every other month.

@CarolinaGirl60 I stopped doing injections all together last year because they offered no relief. Then I switched pain specialists and this guy actually diagnosed my DDD and knows which spots are worst so I am trying again. Depending on if these work or not I'll do every 2-3 months

@LadyAlyxandrea I hope you get relief from them. It’s sure not worth it if they aren’t helpful!

@CarolinaGirl60 you're telling me. I'm very hesitant this time but I'll give Dr Fan his chance

My pain doc uses lidocaine, no steroids. He put 4-5 on each side of the back of my neck, about where the red is in the photo. This is supposed to decrease headaches, which have been much worse the past few weeks.
Normally I get them at my waistline and just above, on each side. The most severe fibromyalgia pain has always been my back.

@CarolinaGirl60 That's what my Neurologist used to do... it never helped me for more then what the Lidocaine lasted. Sometimes it could help break a migraine cycle.

Botox did a lot more for me regarding neck pain and migraines. It's going through the insurance approval process that is a pain.

Also it wears off before the 3 month limit for me. But it is way better than it was without it,.

My worst pain and knots and muscle spasms are in my neck and in my lower back.

I hope you find relief.

I’ve never had Botox, but it’s one of the treatments for gastroparesis. I’ve had it offered for migraines, but didn’t try it.
Does it help you? How often is it injected?

@RavenCT Thank you...I hope the same for you. Migraines suck.

@CarolinaGirl60 Once every three months. They inject up from my temples - and down the back of head into my neck and across my shoulders.
It cuts down from what can be daily migraines to maybe one every two weeks for the first 2 1/2 months. That last two weeks of waiting is not the greatest.
But the break from a near daily migraine is priceless.

I want/need botox in my entire trapezius muscle and neck, for my fibro/dystonia but my insurance won't cover the medicine only the proceedure.

@LadyAlyxandrea There may be a compassionate use program through Botox. I'd suggest you check.

@BookDeath I've had multiple meds. trigger my migraines over the years. Including one to lower my cholesterol.
Now if it happens I Google the drug.

Someday we should all gather and talk about horrific Doctor experiences.

Maybe the positive ones too.

@BookDeath I fired two doctors. One was a GI who, at every opportunity, tried to push Lyrica on me. Not for my GI issues, so WTF? I got sick of that fast.
Another guy, I walked out without even a word to him. First of all, I asked the receptionist to change the tv from Faux and rather than just refuse, gave me a story about how that tv ONLY got Faux. ?. Then the doctor: supposedly a fibromyalgia ‘expert’, tells me that the ‘best’ treatment for fibromyalgia was to do aerobics. No questions, nothing. Aerobics.
I just got up, left, and never went back.

@CarolinaGirl60 My GP recently told me exercise would improve my Fibro.
I'm ready to change Doctors and soon.

I mean it would help? But I'm in too much pain. Idgit.

@RavenCT Right?! Even if I could do it, I’d be down for weeks, recovering.

@CarolinaGirl60 Yup I really wanted to harm him. It was touch and go. SMH.