Pain Clinic treatment

Hi- The pain clinic seem to have started me on a local aneasthetic jab into the suprascapular nerve to see if this is the cause. The pain has reduced and I am down to have the nerve killed off as the surgery aggravates things and this could be the cause of the problems.
Also, he has recommended some pepper cream for the area where I have had the clavicle removed as the nerve endings etc are tender, so will collect this from my docotr this week.Think you start off on a low dose and then increase but you have to be quite careful not to get it on your hands or in your eyes as it would hurt like mad, apparantely!!
There seems to be many options so I am optimistic they can help. The OS did say that they can do alot for me within the pain clinic but shoulders are never great after lots of surgery.

Has anyone been referred to a pain clinic for treatment on their shoulder following excessive surgery? I have been referred on to an aneasthetist, so that they can give me some relief to a very tender shoulder following 4 bouts of surgery.
I just wondered what they did, I understand it to be injections and also techniques which can involve killing off the nerves that cause the pain which can get damaged after shoulder surgery. I'm keen to hear from any forum members or specialists who read this forum. I am very optimistic about it, and keen to know of other experiences.