It's really not that bad. They numbed the areas they were injecting on me. I drove myself home and was fine. About an hour or two later when the pain meds wear off you feel like you got in a fight. You're sore for a couple days and it progressively gets better. I took Tylenol for a day and was fine.
The pain is the result of your doctor having to make multiple sticks with a hypodermic needle, and then having to move the needle around in there in order to distribute your plasma "all over." They'll inject you locally with lidocaine but, as ROYSMOKE said, once the lidocaine wears off, you will experience pain. I took Tylenol during the day for pain management but took the "good stuff" at night so I could sleep. I get downright ugly when I don't get my sleep.
The procedure takes very little time. You'll walk in, they'll do a blood draw--60cc's, I believe--then you wait 15 to 30 minutes while they place your collected blood in a centrifuge in order to separate out the plasma. It is that plasma that they inject into you.
To sum it all up...if you're squeamish, just look away.
My wife tried PRP twice for her spine. Man that lady is tough watching the needle go into her spine area. She got no relief, but apparently that treatment is not the best for spine related injuries anyway. I hope you have some better luck with it.
My first one hurt so dang bad I didn't go back. I had paid for three in each knee.
A year later I was back for a torn rotator cuff. The injection doc said they started putting a cc of lidocaine in with it. So I tried it and it was tolerable. Still left my knees sore for weeks.
Gary
I guess I will try it once. See how it goes. Supposedly, according to the doc, once is all it will take but we'll see.
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