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Fibromyalgia treatment.

imokyrok · 2010-01-09 15:36:34

Recently I've been trying treatments more invasive than the usual regimen of drugs. I've had a series of nerve block procedures under general anesthetic. They haven't been effective however and my next course of action is occipital neuromodulation.…

09-01-2010 4:36pm

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imokyrok

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Recently I've been trying treatments more invasive than the usual regimen of drugs. I've had a series of nerve block procedures under general anesthetic. They haven't been effective however and my next course of action is occipital neuromodulation.
http://www.painmd.com/treatments/implantable-technologies/occipital-neuromodulation.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/PainCareNH

It's difficult to find statistics on how effective this treatment is for chronic pain. The organisation in the link has claimed by phone that 95% of their fms patients gain relief but they couldn't be specific about that in terms of the level of relief etc. I know some people in Ireland have had the treatment locally and if any of you catch this thread I'd love to hear how you got on.

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