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Unrelenting rib pain-my solution
I created a post about 6 months ago about an unrelenting rib pain from rib fractures that I was having after being diagnosed with MM in 2019 and it continued after my stem cell transplant and subsequent required treatments after coming out of remission.
Well, I finally met with the neurologist who sent me to the interventional pain doctor in October 2025. She recommended an intercostal nerve block be performed. Steroids are injected into the space between the ribs where the nerve exists the spinal column. I was injected at three different intercostal rib spaces.
This has been a life changer for me. I am no longer on daily pain meds and I feel better than ever. If needed, I can get the injections every 6 months. For those of you that have had similar rib pain, and I know there are because you responded to my earlier post, I hope that this may give you an option for relief also.
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