RADICULOPATHY AFTER BLOOD PATCH PATCH

Transient backache and/or radiculopathy may occur in up to one-third of patients.

RADICULOPATHY AFTER BLOOD PATCH PATCH

345 Thoracic Epidural Blood Patch in SIH punctures and injections were carried out in the lateral decubitus position. Treatment for this headache is often a?blood patch' where blood is taken from the patient's arm and injected into the epidural space to plug the hole in the dura. Because of the large size of epidural needles, post dural puncture headache (PDPH) following dural puncture occurs in as many as 85% of patients. Unintentional dural puncture during attempted epidural anesthesia occurs with a reported incidence of 1-5% depending on operator experience. One more thing is never welcome so I am glad the blood patch did it for you. I have a left leg that was shattered, two damaged shoulders and lower back herniated discs so I can relate with the chronic pain. What a relief this is too.It is always nice to get some of the pain taken care of. Now I am healing from my ACDF and doing really well three days out. My headache, or rather killer head pressure was gone and stayed gone.your back will be better very soon too.

I had that done about five years ago and you are right, the injection site hurt but the blood patch worked like a charm. Hi Lisa, Glad you got some relief from that. He had to go above the fusion and inject down. Second blood patch, my doc injected dye in first (to fill in some areas that the blood was going and didn't need it-hope that makes sense) and then the blood. They usually work well the first time.oh I feel for you. It worked almost instantly! Mine had to be done twice, but then again they did my myelogram over my fusion (not a good idea). They take blood from your arm and inject it over where the leak it. I had one for a spinal headache from a lumbar myelogram.

Radiculopathy after blood patch