San Diego—There are headaches, and then there is post–dural puncture headache (PDPH)—a severe and debilitating side effect of spinal and epidural anesthesia that may last three weeks or more without treatment.
Epidural steroid injections are regarded as a safe and effective treatment for PDPH, but minor complications such as wrong-site tissue injection and dural puncture can occur (Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2014;58:858-866). And yet, epidurals have been administered the same way