Hi---
Got my second week of Hylagen injections Friday. The new PA was on a
different schedule now.
This time I got a long-time PA that I have known over the years, so I asked
her some questions.
She numbed the surface of my knees really good, (like last time), with a
cooling spray or whatever it is. Thank goodness. The long-term PA told me
she numbs it extra, when she is doing the knee injections, because they tend
to hurt allot. She's always been the gentle PA with her injections.
I asked----They do not use the synvisc (sp?) injections anymore.
They use the Halaygen (sp) liquid injection directly, no novacaine or
lidocaine, for a 5 week treatment, as they have found better patient results
using that specific injection brand, as compared to 3 week syn-visc brand of
injection schedule.
She showed me the box each syringe comes in, and the medicine itself is
spelled like Halygen (sp?) but with an extra "a" as far as I could see.
The medicine injected is basically the same as the treatment name, but seems
to have an extra "a".
I go to a Pain Therapy Center to a Rhuematologist that I have gone to over 6
or more years and I have a good trust in them. They have always helped me as
best I could be helped, fibro and all.

This time I had my long term PA that did the injection, she said that it is
not an injection of collogen, but is a lubricant injection. She put a drop
of it from the syringe onto the top of my hand, and said for me to rub it,
it feels like thick vegetable oil. It did---

It's Saturday afternoon, I spent yesterday, after the shots, goofing off in
a Lazy Boy, with a big bath towel over my knees. Felt nice and warm. Today
the pain is far less than it was last week ago at this point. Much less!

Best to all--
Ron   :-)