“Can spinal anesthesia cause nerve pain?”
I am a 27 year old female. I wonder if spinal anesthesia can cause nerve pain?
7 Answers
Yes, if not done correctly .
This is very rare to have any lasting effects from a spinal anesthetic, but there are documented cases of this happening.
Yes, it could potentially cause TNS or causa equine syndrome
It could be possible, but it is very rare.It alsi depends on many factors, coexisting diseases, difficulty of spinal technique, reason for spinal anesthesia ( surgical procedure, cesarean section, part of combined spinal/epidural for labor), position after spinal anesthesia technique and so on.To answer correctly you would need many more details.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Very unlikely. A complication like that would be caused by an impurity of the injected solution and the pharmaceutical.companies are highly regulated so as to prevent this.
It would be very rare for a spinal block to cause nerve damage. It is advisable to avoid NSAIDs for ~10-14 days to decrease the risk of potential epidural hematoma (expanding blood clot) which could compress a spinal nerve.
It's not common. But there are cases of patients who develop neural pain after spinal block. And could be for months.
