Guest guest Posted August 10, 2000 Report Share Posted August 10, 2000 Steroid Injections - Targeted Pain Relief Doctors generally don't recommend having more than three to four injections a year in a particular area of your body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2002 Report Share Posted October 3, 2002 Hi . I can sympathize with the pain of cortisone injections. I used to get them in my knees routinely. Some worked for a few months and others didn¹t work at all. After many years of this, I wound up with both knees getting replaced. I don¹t know if the cortisone injections damaged my joints or not, but they gave me much needed relief. I now refuse cortisone injections since the last few didn¹t work and they really don¹t know the effects on the joints. The safety of repeated injection of cortisone into an individual joint is debated among rheumatologists. The best website I've found on cortisone, both orally and injections is: http://www.midwestarthritis.com/html/steroids.htm Here are some other general sites: http://www.medicomm.net/Consumer%20Site/tp/tp_c11.htm http://www.focusonallergies.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11574 & rd=1 I opted for the joint injections instead of taking oral prednisone. It's your decision. I've had a few doctors get pissy with me for refusing injections. It made me feel like they were only interested in billing more to the insurance company. I now know my first RD gave me way to many injections in my knees. That was before the internet and me having the ability to look up treatments. Getting injections to often can damage the joints. a > My RD sent me to a foot surgeon to check out the forefoot pain I've > been having for a while. It doesn't really seem to respond to > anything I've taken orally. Now my feet are developing bunions and > starting to look weird. The podiatrist wants to try orthotics and > cortisone injections and stave off surgery as long as possible. > There is joint narrowing, cysts, and structural changes, but not bad > enough for surgery yet. He gave me a cortisone injection 2 weeks ago > in my big toe and it did work. I can actually bend my big toe for > the first time in months. Today, he wanted to give me another in my > third metatarsal joint and I declined. They work, but the initial > pain just sends me through the roof!!!!! I have cysts in the bones > of the last metatarsal of both feet, pain in the third metatarsals of > both feet, and ankle pain in both ankles. I can't imagine having all > these injections all the time! Not to mention my finger that won't > bend and the arthritic changes in my neck (you know the routine > <wink>). I just don't see cortisone injections as being anything > more than a band-aid. On the flip side, I'd like very much to get > off the oral pred I've been taking for years. Sigh...what to do, > what to do. Anyone have any info on cortisone injections? I did an > Internet search, but most of what came up were posts of running > injuries. I don't see my RD until the 14th, and the podiatrist wants > me back in a month to inject something somewhere! It's also > starting to add up to lots of $$ as United just increased my copays. > > Thanks for listening! > > Blessings, > R (FL) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2002 Report Share Posted October 3, 2002 Hi . I can sympathize with the pain of cortisone injections. I used to get them in my knees routinely. Some worked for a few months and others didn¹t work at all. After many years of this, I wound up with both knees getting replaced. I don¹t know if the cortisone injections damaged my joints or not, but they gave me much needed relief. I now refuse cortisone injections since the last few didn¹t work and they really don¹t know the effects on the joints. The safety of repeated injection of cortisone into an individual joint is debated among rheumatologists. The best website I've found on cortisone, both orally and injections is: http://www.midwestarthritis.com/html/steroids.htm Here are some other general sites: http://www.medicomm.net/Consumer%20Site/tp/tp_c11.htm http://www.focusonallergies.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11574 & rd=1 I opted for the joint injections instead of taking oral prednisone. It's your decision. I've had a few doctors get pissy with me for refusing injections. It made me feel like they were only interested in billing more to the insurance company. I now know my first RD gave me way to many injections in my knees. That was before the internet and me having the ability to look up treatments. Getting injections to often can damage the joints. a > My RD sent me to a foot surgeon to check out the forefoot pain I've > been having for a while. It doesn't really seem to respond to > anything I've taken orally. Now my feet are developing bunions and > starting to look weird. The podiatrist wants to try orthotics and > cortisone injections and stave off surgery as long as possible. > There is joint narrowing, cysts, and structural changes, but not bad > enough for surgery yet. He gave me a cortisone injection 2 weeks ago > in my big toe and it did work. I can actually bend my big toe for > the first time in months. Today, he wanted to give me another in my > third metatarsal joint and I declined. They work, but the initial > pain just sends me through the roof!!!!! I have cysts in the bones > of the last metatarsal of both feet, pain in the third metatarsals of > both feet, and ankle pain in both ankles. I can't imagine having all > these injections all the time! Not to mention my finger that won't > bend and the arthritic changes in my neck (you know the routine > <wink>). I just don't see cortisone injections as being anything > more than a band-aid. On the flip side, I'd like very much to get > off the oral pred I've been taking for years. Sigh...what to do, > what to do. Anyone have any info on cortisone injections? I did an > Internet search, but most of what came up were posts of running > injuries. I don't see my RD until the 14th, and the podiatrist wants > me back in a month to inject something somewhere! It's also > starting to add up to lots of $$ as United just increased my copays. > > Thanks for listening! > > Blessings, > R (FL) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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