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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

SonofDonald

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5. Try radio frequency ablation on the nerve endings

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Sep 28, 2017, 06:56 PM

Sep 2017

Last edited Fri Sep 29, 2017, 02:42 PM - Edit history (1)

They identify which nerve endings are transmitting the pain by numbing them on two visits to find the right ones.

Then they zap them, it took twice for my issue to be helped, I'm still on opiates but I dropped 60 milligrams per day this way from 180mg to 120mg.

I was at the pain clinic this morning and asked how long I could expect it to last.

My pain Doctor said a patient of hers last ablation was 12 years ago.

It really works.

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I have chronic pain and nothing works for it. I'm afraid I'll be forgotten in the opioid crisis. [View all] Cattledog Sep 2017 OP

Scares me greatly to think of what this drug company created problem will do to Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

I saw a map of all the opioid deaths in New Jersey recently elehhhhna Sep 2017 #2

Have the link by any chance? I am curious, but the reason that is Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #3

What pisses me off is people who think you are eventually going to abuse pain medication even Maraya1969 Oct 2017 #8

Is MMJ available where you live? samnsara Sep 2017 #4

This is myth.... ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #6

Same here SonofDonald Sep 2017 #7

Try radio frequency ablation on the nerve endings SonofDonald Sep 2017 #5

I am not making a statement on pain killers. I take them myself. But when you Maraya1969 Oct 2017 #9

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