Re: Prolotherapy and it's dangers

Hmm, interesting considering ALL that prolo contains is lidocain (a numbing med) and dextrose (basically, Sugar water...). I, on the other hand, HAVE been injected "old school" with STEROIDS, dex, and lido, with success attributed mainly to the steroids BUT, steroids are horrible for your body and actually cause soft tissue breakdown over the long term.
It SOUNDS like, to me, that the M.D. was a QUACK and what was done to you was totally illegal, IF an "office girl" did your injection...Sorry for your pain but, an "office girl" could NOT have REMOTELY done your injection as they MUST be done with guided fluoroscopes and I doubt a high school dropout could do a interspinous injection! (lol) So, my point? I AM truly sorry that you had a bad experience BUT, I find it horribly irresponsible for you to publish misinformation as the injections DO work and are a miracle procedure for those of us in chronic pain (I can only control mine with injections and morphine).
I think that you SHOULD lawyer up instead and sue the practice instead of scaring people away from a totally SAFE and EFFECTIVE procedure!!
And, by the way....would you rather have a nice DULL needle to g in or a nice sharp one? If the needle is not LONG, it will not get to the area being injected (and it sounds like it was your SI joint because it I deep!).
Please, don't allow your phobia of needles to infect people who are in need of this procedure!!!!! You are confusing a phobia with a necessary part of the procedure!!!

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