WTF. That sounds fucking terrible. Did they offer you compensation for that fuckup? So it didn't work because it was injected in the wrong place or because it wouldn't have worked anyway and it did eventually go into the right place?
I'm seriously going to research this stem cell treatment for my knee. I thought it was some science fiction type shit but if it's got to the point where people are doing it and it's affordable; it's worth looking into as I'm desperate to get some improvement in it.
How much did it cost?
What were the complications?
It was free, I was part of a study.
The doctor injected cadaver graph and stem cells into two discs, L4/L5, L5/S1. On the S1 injection he overinjected the disc (felt like he inflated a car tire in my back, couldn’t roll over for about 15 minutes) and the material floated out into the spinal fluid and caused a reaction they called “chemical meningitis” and I ended up in the hospital two days later when my fever wouldn’t go away. I was in the hospital for 12 days, most of which I don’t remember because they had me drugged up on pain meds and sedated, catheter and all. Anyways, I wasn’t really getting better and after getting out of the hospital lost 38 pounds in 10 weeks. They kept running my blood and doing MRI and finally found that I had a staph infection in my spine. So, not only did this fool over inject me, he didn’t clean my back well enough and pushed staph into my disc. For the entire ten weeks before they found the infection and I was losing weight, I was having nose bleeds (one of which required ER trip and cauterize because it wouldn’t stop, pissing out like a faucet) and night sweats.
I didn’t sue or anything, I got better and just move along. A buddy of mine had the same thing done, although he didn’t do it in a study and paid for it. I think he said it was $3,000 and didn’t do shit. He actually went to Texas and had a fusion done. I have pain still, and they tell me that if the arthritis naturally fuses the discs, that I’ll get some pain relief. FYI, I do non narcotic pain management and don’t want to do surgery. I’ve just learned to live with it.