By maggie on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:20 am:

I have received 11 Prolotherapy treatments for ligament laxity in the neck and pain in the thoracic area. I have bad radiating pain in the arms, legs and spine from the initial injury. I have received some relief from the whiplash but no real relief from the radiating pain. You said it took you 20 injections. My doctor uses a dextrose solution. I do not know if this is strong enough due to the severity of the injury. Could you let me know what solution they used on you? Also, the doctor asks me where it hurts? Should he be injecting the referral patterns or doing something scientific to try and reduce the radiating pain?
Margret

By Greg on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 12:57 pm:

Margret,

Sorry it took me so long to respond. I hope you read this. I have my doctor use sodium morrhuate in my solution. But be warned, the next two days after taking a solution as strong as I do are absolute hell, and a few times I had to go to the ER because I was in such bad pain. It took me 12 sessions to notice a difference, but it took almost a year or more of treatments to really feel 95% better. More important than the solution though is really where the injections are. I had about 40-50 different injection sites each treatment. Diet is crucially important, as is supplementing with Glucosamine/Chondroiten, MSM, and digestive enzymes like bromelain. Doing cardiovascular exercise 5-6 times a week significantly helped my healing too. Please ask me any more questions that you would like to know. I wish you tremendous luck.

Greg

By margret on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 09:41 am:

Greg,
Were you injured or do you have HMS? What percentage SM solution did your doctor use? Why were you in so much pain from the solution? I feel like hell from the year of dextrose solution especially since it did not help. Did you have radiating pain?

By margret on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:53 am:

Greg,
I had some more questions to add to the above. How often did you have the treatments? Which doctor did you use? I went to Dr. Hauser in Chicago and am upset that he did not mention the sodium morruate as an option. I told him the dextrose was not working. What type of pain medication did they give you for the pain? So far I did not get any stabilization and possibly have more inflammation than I started with. Some people say they were overtighted by the sm. Did your doctor do anything to prevent this. Eppie seems to have done well with sm. She said after 3 injections she felt much less pain. Why did you need so many?

By Greg on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 06:29 pm:

Margaret,

I have EDS and I injured my neck. I went to a doctor in the Boston area. I am not sure how much SM was in the solution, but I had to work up to tolerating it. I needed a lot of treatments because people with EDS are very slow healers.
Ligaments cannot be overtightened, it is just physically impossible. If they were really that tight, you would not be having pain anymore. I can't tell you what is wrong with you neck, but ligaments can't be too tight, especially if you have EDS. GOod luck

Greg

By margret on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 07:41 am:

Greg,
How often did you receive the treatments? What type of pain do you get from it. Did your doctor decide what amount to increase your solution each time? Did you have radiating pain?