Nerve blocks increased frequency

[mlzippy7]

Has anyone had a nerve block that increased their frequecy of IC?

[athina620]

Hi,
I just read your e-mail was from 2007 but I had the same problem when I had nerve blocks...I started going to the bathroom a lot more often and I really mean A LOT MORE. At first, I thought it was just in my head but then I had another one and the same thing happened but it didn't happen with all the nerve blocks...it depends on where he injected. I did mention it to him once but he didn't really say much plus he's a pain mgt doctor and was treating me for my bulging discs. I orginally went to him for my endo pain or so I thought it was just endo pain ...during that time I had no idea I had IC. Then he did an MRI and 2 bulging discs show up which would explain the back aches, pains, that I was having all of a sudden but I thought it was my mild scolosis. So he really started treating me for thd discs and tried or is still trying for IC. I also ended up getting the pain from my back shoot down to the bottom of my leg and that's the left side where I also end up getting my IC pain as well as my endo and my bad kidney (pylenophritis). I tried Lyrica and it gave me a migraine which I also suffer from so I immediately stopped taking it. Neurontin was awful!! I ended up getting what's called "hangover effect" and I was the one who figured it out not any of my MD's. Thank God I got my AA in Pre-Pharmacy and worked in a Pharmacy for 14 years since I was 17 and now I teach juniors and seniors at a magnet technical school. Had it not been for my prior knowledge I honestly don't know what would have happened. I couldn't go to work for about 3 days and I still wasn't 100% better but I have missed so many days that I forced myself to go and that was after taking the med for only 3 days (maybe 4) and once a day not TID as he wanted me to take and then looking up the med and talking to my boyfriend who's a pharmacist who also (have to give him some credit..lol) helped realize the problem. So got the PDR book and looked up the half life of the med and figured out how long it would be out of my system. I tried Prosed DS but didn't really get much relief then just started Urelle with a new urologist and it actually worked a LOT better than Prosed. Elavil-can't tolerate,Ketorolac only works if injected not the tablets, Mobic nor Celebrex really work but Vioxx did wonders ???? Lunesta no..Ambien 10mg sometimes..Tramadol ..if I don't find any other med I always keep in since one of my doctor's had no problem prescrbing that but not any Schedule meds...referred me to a pain mgt. Ok I won't bore you with the rest of my meds that I've been on since June 27, 2008 when I finally got diagnosed with IC and Nov. 7, 2007 with endo but Lybrel has worked for me for my endo. It's just the pain of IC that really hurts and I'm probably blabbing since I'm having another hydrodistention in a few hours and I'm really nervous since last year it took forever for the pain to go away but then it was worth it. Not that all my pain was gone but taking pain meds is helping me for now until the last flare and of course a kidney infection about 2 to 3 weeks ago so I am going to pray that this time it doesn't take that long to stop hurting since last year it was a lap to remove my endo via excision surgery and the cystoscopy with bladder hydrodistention.
Hope I didn't bore you and feel free to e-mail also at miamiathena@aol.com
Hope everything went well with your bladder removal if you ended up doing it since this e-mail is over 2 years old.