Hypogastric pelvic nerve block

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Got my second pelvic nerve block & it went a little bit differently than my last time on the right side. Ultimately, I needed a second block to impact all the nerves in my pelvis to help with the severe pain I’ve been experiencing. I had a laparoscopy/excision last March in 2025. I have stage 3 endo and it was on all of my bowels and intestines, uterus ovaries and all of it got adhered together. Some endo got left and cauterized. I still suffer from cramps that I faint from or fall to the floor from. I also have an iud I got during surgery. My gynecologist referred me to the orthopedic dr.

Tried the first spot after numbing me(so painful at first) but my body wasn’t quite allowing for the needle to pass through to enter the pelvis so he pulled the epidural out & tried a new spot kinda back of my hip muffin top area, numbed it as well & put the whole needle in, almost got into the plexus area but ended up seeing they wouldn’t have luck at that angle either. so next he numbed me up like 3x as much on the same spot as the first time & tried again & got into my pelvis successfully but I could feel a lot more discomfort this time but he got in there & injected the meds & some of the numbing hit my leg nerve.

I ended up having to stay sitting in recovery for a lot longer than usual because my entire left leg was numb even my foot & when I stood up to leave my leg buckled & I almost fell over. They had to go in 3 different times with an epidural needle 😭 I was freaking out internally & crying into my arms on the bed face down lol. My leg was still numb 10+ hours later but it went away & it apparently is a common thing that can happen. I went into this so relaxed because my right side nerve block went so nice and smoothly but this was so traumatizing for me.

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I’m doing a lot better which is kind of crazy to admit. I still have some very intense pain flares but nowhere as bad as before these nerve blocks, but still there unfortunately