“Only thing that worked for me was radiofrequency nerve ablation.”
Where was your pain? The spine doc has mentioned it as a possible treatment for my osteoarthritis-related spinal stenosis. Thanks.
Pain was lumbar/sacro and was affecting the hips and ability to walk as well. According to my pain doc, Ablation is good for around 2 yrs (ymmv - I’m a year and change from the first procedure and all is still well), but the outpatient procedure is so easy, you can just keep having it done when the previous one wears off (the nerves will grow back). A crap load better than being stoned on opiates all the time (not that you can even get them prescribed anymore anyway). The procedure worked better for me than opiates ever did. Having my first cervical spine ablation in about a week from today. The preliminary outpatient procedures for that (they inject cortisone and a pain killer near the target nerves - if the pain goes away after, they know they are targeting the correct ones and they schedule the actual ablation) indicate that that ablation will work just as good as the lumbar ablation procedure