Feb 1 08 I was evaluated at Cleveland Clinic Spine Clinic they were excellent & referred me to Pain Clinic for an evaluation in March. In March an appt for C2 Nerve Block on April 7 08.

April 7 the 1st nurses were great taking vitals, IV, & putting an ID Bracelet indicating allergies. Next Nurse & gentleman entered, said she would be my nurse, and started describing implant procedure. I told her I was there to have a C2 nerve block. She waved off my statement. My husband injected I was there to have a C2 nerve block. The gentleman with her left as she continued to explain procedure, when he returned he looked at my ID bracelet & announced they had the wrong patient. Don't stop it gets worse...

Dr. Amaresh Vydyanathan enters & points at my husband & says 'YOU SIT' then introduced himself. He did verify my name & we told him that I was there for a C2 Nerve Block with Dr. Narouze.  Dr Vydyanathan has a nervous twitch in his legs as he teeters from one leg to the other asking questions that had been asked by the Spine Doctor on Feb 1 & again by Dr. Narouze in March before setting up this procedure. He then leaves & comes back to inform us that Dr. Narouze flight is delayed & he will see if the other Doctor will do the procedure. We remind him I am there for a C2 Nerve Block. He returns to inform us the other Dr refused to do the procedure & we had a choice of going home or waiting an hour for Dr. Narouze.  We choose to wait for Dr. Narouze as we live hours away & I've lived with this daily pain in the right side of the back of my skull with residual pain at the top left of my eye brow of my right eye nearest my nose, for more than 2 yrs.  Dr. Vydyanathan continues to ask silly questions.

Finally I am told Dr. Narouze is here & I am whisked off to the procedure room. There I meet another nurse & Dr. Vydyanathan is also there. Dr. Vydyanathan asks me about my allergy to Iodine asking me if I am sure I am allergic. I insist that I am while he continues to question if I am really allergic. I am face down on the procedure table with my head covered & receive a mild sedative. I hear Dr Vydyanathan & the nurse discuses preparations & then announce Dr. Narouze is coming down the hall.

The procedure begins & a fluid is injected in my skull, I am asked if it is going to the areas where I have pain. I reply yes & other areas of my skull as well. I here a voice saying have her back in 3 weeks for the other side. Then I am moved to recovery.

In recovery a nurse while I still have the IV in and dizzy, holds up a pamphlet & tells me what the discharge instructions are, another girl comes in & states she is the receptionist & gives me an appt for in 3 weeks to do the left side. I tell her I have nothing wrong with the left side. She tells me she has made the appt, I can always cancel. When I have the urgency to go to the bathroom I motion to a nurse to come over. She states she first has to remove the IV, while someone comes over to tell her about an error she has made. This error she made becomes her main interest as she alternates between removing IV tape & going back and forth to the person who told her she made a mistake. I now urgently in need of the bathroom, sit up & start helping remove the tape. She say boy you are in a hurry. I reply yes I really urgently have to go. The IV out I ask where bathroom is, she points but does not offer assistance even though I am dizzy from the mild anisthesia. As I'm trying to enter the bathroom Dr Vydyanathan asks how I am doing. I reply something about having to go to bathroom badly & close the bathroom door. When I come out of the bathroom my clothes is on the bed & the nurse tells me go on & get dressed she is discharging me.  I get dressed & she makes sure I have the discharge pamphlet, & appointment & leads me to my husband in the waiting room. I am dizzy, in pain & nauseous but I haven't had medication in 12 hrs and prior never blocks this occurs for a day or two. The nausea continues for days, I have ringing in my ears, a pressure at both temples but nothing the pamphlet says to worry about.  Then one morning I wake so dizzy I nearly collapse. It is reminiscing of 1994 when I had an epidural when and these symptoms progressed over a weeks time until I could no longer stand up. I told my husband take me to the family doctor or the emergency room. He called the family doctor and then Cleveland Clinic to have the procedure notes from April 7th faxed to the family doctor. At the doctors office he prescribed some medications, order blood work & stated he would be out of town so if I symptoms continued to go to the emergency room. I ask for Cleveland Clinic procedure fax in case I would need them for the emergency room it stated THEY HAD INJECTED ME WITH THE SAME INGREDIENTS I HAD TOLD THEM I WAS ALERGIC TO, THE ALLERGY LIST DATED 2/1/08 WAS ON THE SAME PAGE AS THE 4/7/08 PROCEDURE THEY FAXED. June 19 2008 I am still having residual problems never experience before 4/7/08 from this procedure. If you have Dr Amaresh Vydyanathan a fellow at Cleveland Clinic be very careful he doesn't make the same mistake with you.  

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