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[epidural man]

Mallory Weggemann​

Mallory Weggemann on the Terrifying Moment She Was Paralyzed by an Epidural Shot: 'I Felt This Spark of Pain'

Mallory Weggemann, now 31, was just a teen when she was paralyzed after a medical procedure

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[painfree23]

Teen with shingles being treated with an ESI? Something seems fishy

 

[Agast]

I’ve treated PHN with epidurals. Works fine.

 

[paindoc007]

Teen with shingles being treated with an ESI? Something seems fishy

Nothing fishy about it at all. A bad complication to an elective procedure. Particulate emboli in a tfesi is my guess.

 

[Orin]

Mallory Weggemann - Wikipedia

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T10-complete on the third epidural in a series of 3 for PHN.

She'd be a good candidate for SCS for motor recovery

 

[bedrock]

Mallory Weggemann - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

T10-complete on the third epidural in a series of 3 for PHN.

She'd be a good candidate for SCS for motor recovery

Sad. Particularly sad if some dumba$$ was using particulate steroid for a thoracic TFESI anytime in the last 15 years.

 

[Taus]

Sad. Particularly sad if some dumba$$ was using particulate steroid for a thoracic TFESI anytime in the last 15 years.

Either that or a direct intra-cord needle placement and injection

 

[bedrock]

Either that or a direct intra-cord needle placement and injection

Given her the lack of pain reported, a TFESI with particulate seemed more likely. But I agree that we don’t know.

Sadly I know several LA pain docs who do mostly PI work and they do all their TFESI with particulate at every level.

 

[Ferrismonk]

Sad. Particularly sad if some dumba$$ was using particulate steroid for a thoracic TFESI anytime in the last 15 years.

Old timers at my place STILL do Kenalog and Depo TFESI. smh

 

[Agast]

Series of 3 for PHN? I’d assume whatever benefit an epidural would provide would have happened with the first one…

 

[painfree23]

Given her the lack of pain reported, a TFESI with particulate seemed more likely. But I agree that we don’t know.

Sadly I know several LA pain docs who do mostly PI work and they do all their TFESI with particulate at every level.

Hah, most of the PI epidurals may not even b in the epidural space so who cares if it’s particulate or not. They aren’t gonna get better anyway.

 

[painfree23]

Either that or a direct intra-cord needle placement and injection

Direct cord needle would’ve been much more painful I’d imagine..

 

[epidural man]

Why where her legs bent “upwards behind her”? What does that mean?

 

[bedrock]

Why where her legs bent “upwards behind her”? What does that mean?

Probably because they didn’t give her an ankle roll and she felt more comfortable with her knees bent.

 

[rexed]

Hah, most of the PI epidurals may not even b in the epidural space so who cares if it’s particulate or not. They aren’t gonna get better anyway.

This ^^^