Stellate Ganglion Block treatment

Another bad stellate ganglion block experience:

She traveled to Boston for another treatment that seemed to hold promise – injecting the anaesthetic lidocaine into a cluster of neurons in her neck. This procedure had been used to treat PTSD and anecdotally had helped some long COVID patients. Not only did that fail to yield any benefit, the experience left her immobilized for months, and she never fully recovered.​

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Post in thread 'The Boston Globe: A doctor watches his 28-year-old daughter suffer from long COVID. He clings fiercely to hope.'

Crausman said he is fortunate that he’s in a position to devote himself fully to his daughter. He has used his knowledge and connections to try every treatment that had evidence of possibly working. He sent a blood sample for testing in Germany, and found she had a high level of auto-antibodies, which attack certain receptors throughout the body. He started her on a prolonged course of the antiviral Paxlovid. Her experience was later written up in a case series of 13 patients. Some got better. Samantha Crausman “crashed” and had to stop the drug after 10 days. The same thing happened...
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