I'm considering getting this for some joints. I think the doctor uses both PRP and dextrose. He does ozone treatments too. I've have too many injuries to list and PT made everything worse, adding new problems.
So, I'm considering prolotherapy and have some questions.
Did you have a good experience with it or bad or both? What kind did you do?
Did it make Lyme go crazy because it ramps up the immune system?
Thanks!
Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :
Sorry no one answered your questions...
I do not have experience with that.
What sort of thing they inject? It looks painful, I mean, in the joints....
I have only some experiences with neural therapy on scars and accidents. I liked it.
I dislike though the injections, but they did help my cesarean scar.
I don't know if they are similar techniques.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I had lots of prolo done while going thru lyme treatment. My LLMD did them.
I think it helped, but it's quite painful .. more AFTER than during. I always took pain meds one hour before the prolo and then you CANNOT take NSAIDS or any anti-inflammatories afterward for several days. That is when it gets painful.
It's supposed to tighten up the joints so that they are no longer lax.
Posted by Judie (Member # 38323) on :
Yep, I was just diagnosed with hypermobility and FQs didn't help.
My tendons and ligaments are inflamed and I keep getting more problems.
Is it better to get your body as strong as it can be before doing prolo?
Just want the pain to stop so badly.
Posted by gz (Member # 43818) on :
I've been considering this to try and get the tendinosis in my shoulder to heal, just dx'ed as such and had it for two years. Interesting to know it also tightens the joints, mine are getting more lax as time goes on.
I'm worried about the pain factor, but it might be worth it in the long run if it can help strengthen and tighten ligaments.
Lymetoo, did you just get glucose or have added platelets to the injections? About how many injections in each spot were needed? What was recovery like, re pain and how long?
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Pretty sure it did not have platelets. Glucose and some other plant stuff... .. can't remember the name of it.
Judie... just get it done .. but I would make sure you don't have EDS first. I'm not sure if that would affect things or not... but you need to know anyway.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
I got real sore from injections in my spine and gave up on it.
I'm in PT and I like what I'm getting out of it - I'm getting stronger in the muscles that support our structure, so I think that's the direction I'd like to pursue re this instability issue.
I have to do every exercise incrementally, like 10%, then 20%, etc, whereas a normal person could just go for it. But by the time I see the therapist again, I'm able to do the exercise and get progressed.
The other thing I do daily is take turmeric capsules to keep inflammation down.
Posted by MichaelTampa (Member # 24868) on :
I wish I remembered exactly what this was. I feel I had this a couple years ago, injections into shoulder.
I had some with ozone, and then some with blood plasma and I believe also ozone. Maybe both of these also had novecaine? (The plasma is made by taking blood as if for a blood test, then spinning it right away to separate out the plasma, so it is your own plasma.)
I feel like sometimes I got it, it really helped. I feel like a few times it seemed like it made it worse. I feel like a number of times, it made no difference, and so eventually I had enough of those in a row that I stopped.
Always it really hurts for a day, REALLY hurts. So, "helped" refers to how it is a couple/few days later.
I feel like overall going through the series of these helped, but was not the complete solution to the problem. My shoulder pain did eventually go away.
Maybe these injections were part of the solution, and the healing would not have happened without them, or at least not as quickly. That is my guess.
It is hard to know, particularly as the pain did not completely stop until I think a few months or maybe several months after I stopped.
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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Prolo is often used in many joints at the same time .. not necessarily for an acutely painful joint.
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.. can't remember the name of it.