Spinal injections curious if anyone has had these problems?

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I had a spinal injection done a week ago on my L5 ,S1. After recieving this I noticed this time I was in severe pain afterwarRAB to the point that I had to stay in fetal position for 3 days to ease the pain. Also after checking the site for signs of infection where I found no signs of infection I noticed my whole lurabar area looked as if it was bruised, but the bruising was in the shape of a very thick spider web in shape and is fading very slowly.I am continuing to have severe pain with no releif from injection but pain has increased after injection. Was just curious if this was normal as far as pain goes and would like to know if anyone has ever had this kind of bruising and what caused it because my doctors seem to have no answers for me. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank You,:wave:
 
I had the same injection and thought it had worked until the anesthetic wore off and I was back to square one. (hope yours is more sucessful in the long term)
Sorry can't help with the brusing, don't think I had any but I think it should clear soon, (not a dr. but seems to follow cappillary/blood system, if web like) hopefully any inflamation should calm down soon too, and then the pain, Hope things get better soon.
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Who did the injection? Did they have you on a flueroscope to see where they were placing the needle? It sounRAB like the hit a nerve dead on....
 
I heard it is normal for the pain to increase immediately after the injection but not one week out. I think you should contact your doctor. I had injections in the past with no problem and they helped. This last set did not go well for me. I had 2, one ESI, and one sacroiliac. I was in severe pain that night in my low back, and it has been swollen since then, and feels like I am laying on a pillow if I lay on my back. No bruising but alot of swelling still. It is very very slowly going down, but it has been 3 weeks, and did nothing for me except change my symptoms from one side to the other and lay me up. I read that if you do not do well with the first one, you should not have any more. I wish I had read up more on them before having them but the ones I had in the past did work well for my arthritis and leg weakness. I also read that they only work about 50% of the time.
 
My husband currently has a spinal infection caused from an epidural injection. His symptoms were different than yours but he had a lot of pain that started 2 weeks after the injection. You may want to take a look. I just created another post entitled "spinal infection after epidural spinal injection".

I would recommend seeing your doctor as well. It could be very serious.
 
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