The steroid injection I got in my lumbar spine, for sciatica that would not quit, helped me within 2 days. It’s been a few years and no return of the pain.

People hurt!! The pain can be excruciating so wtf do you do??!!!

Hubby took prednisone for 1 month for his Bell's Palsy. They gave him a five month course. As an RN, Ihad my reservations and cut the time to 1 month only. Within 6 months, he developed Avascular necrosis (AVN) in his hips. Had to get a hip replacement. Beware of steroids of any form.

I've had adverse reaction to steroids for years. I have a difficult time convincing my doctors there is no benefit in making me go through it!

I see more bad things about cortisone than good. So why are doctors giving them? I got 2 yesterday on each knee and im feeling a bit numb. I looked up cortisone and says it can kill you, so why didnt my doctor tell me this and why are all doctors using cortisone???

I've had quite a few and I was worse than I was before I even got one

Great to know I have an appointment with my ortho doctor on Monday for an ulnar nerve entrapment.

Thanks for spreading truth

I have degenerative disc disease with anterolisthesis and I just had my first injection this week and it was pure hell for me. It was the most painful experience. I have bad anxiety so the pain was so intense and then my BP plummeted and I started feeling nauseous and lightheaded. They had to take a few moments to get my BP back up. Almost a week later and still no relief. I wish I didn't have it done. I literally cried during the entire procedure. I will never have it done again.

And this coming from the Dr show that said the c o v I d s h o t s were safe. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣

I’m supposed to get my lumbar steroid injection today for my back pain due to my car accident but I was scared i refused to go I’m 46 yrs old I was terrified to be paralyze . I was hit by a car while crossing my atty is asking me to get some injections. I can deal the pain though. Now watching this it makes me feel like not doing it at all 😮

Good video but they didn’t mention anything about any treatments if cortisone shots are that bad. Especially when physical therapy and NSAIDs don’t work.

I’m not getting any more injections! This has confirmed my suspicions.

Don’t come to me with a problem, come with a solution.

Good information. My Achilles tendon ruptured due to corticosteroid injection, which needs a reconstruction surgery

YES!!! I’ve had multiple conversations about this recently. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a genetic Connective Tissue Disorder. All of my connective tissues (basically anything that contains collagen) are affected. I’ve had quite a few steroid injections - especially in my SI joints and facet injections too (around the spine). Now, my SI joints are so bad and unstable. I can stand for about 10 seconds before severe pain sets in. My SI joints are constantly crunching, grinding, slipping, and popping, and it’s EXCRUCIATING. Any movement, even just shifting a bit in my chair, and they crunch and grind. I have an SI belt but they’re so bad at this point that it doesn’t help. Nothing helps - heat, ice, opiates, nothing. I’m only sleeping a couple of hours a night for weeks now. I can’t turn over in bed because of the pain. I’m scheduled for PRP injections in a couple weeks. If those don’t work, I’m going to need to start looking at SI fusion. I ABSOLUTELY regret steroid injections. Don’t do it, it’s not worth it!

I just got mine today for some inflammation and cysts I have in my right shoulder, along with a SLAP tear. Hopefully this will help along with my physical therapy (self rehabilitation). I also have a small rotator cuff tear from my first and only appointment with physical therapists back in September

really scary i got one yesterday in my shoulder

I’m 19 and I’ve been having steroid injections since I was 11 years old, probably at least once a year. This scares me so much! I had my last steroid injection yesterday and that was after trying and failing oral steroids twice. I upped my medication and that didn’t work either so I am definitely worried about the future of my knee joints.

How about for an untreated Cushings Disease patient?! This disease nearly killed me. Due to pituitary tumor, not exogenous steroids. :(

ok if steroid shots are bad and are to be avoided, what is a good alternative?

Physical Therapists have told me this for years. After all, they are trying to help the pain from this mess of shots.

But if normal physio and chiro do not work and the doctor can't operate - what else do you do?

Yes I've had these extremely painful shots into my fingers and they are very misshapen now. One of my fingers cannot even bend. 8% complications? Well for the number of times they are given to each person, that percentage heightens remarkably.

I agree..I had steroid injection in hip, cartilage broke down rapidly, and I had to get replacement..also experienced that in my knee.

How are they allowed to give this to people ? This should be made illegal - the pain I was in before I had the injection compared to after having it are poles apart - it’s taken what little mobility I had left - I’m taking morphine every two hours as I’m in excruciating pain now ever two hours day and night - I’m exhausted and just want to be able to sleep without waking up crying pain.

They gave me this for my back injury. And it made me have a major auto immune response, and it made things 1000% worse. And the muscle relaxers destroyed the nerve communication from my core to the brain. I spent a year in bed unable to walk. I was flown back to the states from my new country. I had Advance Muscle Integration Therapy. It helped me beyond measure. I have my life back. Im.walking everywhere and am a lot stronger . I even have two very bad knees that need major help. That therapy totally put my body in line. And now I can walk fine without pain. The L knee has no interior ligament attachments and I have no plans to have surgery. Its solid because I'm in line now. Traditional medicine is not always the answer.

So how do u stop pain ?

I had a cortisone injection 6 months ago for an "impingment in the front of my ankle", fucked me up. It was a terrible idea.

I went in to see a foot doctor for an xray bc I suspected I had something in my foot. He did the X-ray but didn’t share any findings with me. He told me that it was something else causing the problem and without any discussion or my permission he just gave me steroid injection in my ft and revealed what he was doing as he was doing it. I didn’t really know how to react about that being that it happened so fast and I did want relief. However, I specifically asked for my foot to be x-rayed for a foreign object and would decide how to proceed after a discussion of the x-ray. Anyways it’s been less than a year ago and my foot is no better. In fact, I am experiencing more pain Zin my foot and it moved up in my leg now. No more injection for me. It feels like I have an uncomfortable patch underneath my foot. Is there a way to be this substance removed before it causes even further complications?

It also weakens the elasticity of tendons and prone to reoccurring im glad that i refused to get it i have had shoulder achiles and ulner injury and it all heals even tendonosis i have read that small doses of hgh can help tendons and nerves

worked great for me, increased inflammation at first and after 2-3 months my triggerfinger was almost gone

My doctor has advised me to go for this tommorow for the tennis elbow..now I'm in a dilemma

I got steroid injections before starting a new job thinking it would help… I ended up so crippled I lost the job and became homeless. I use a walking stick in my late 20s

This is such a fact, Im 47, have osteoarthritis in both knees and hip , after my 3rd injection in my knee I noticed I couldn’t walk, extreme stiffness and pain, worst than before, now am started getting steroid in my hip, and I notice it has become ineffective too my knees and hip, it doesn’t help only brings on more pain…

So what is the alternative when you've tried everything else?

I opt not to have steroid injections for cervical stenosis C5-C6-C7. Since it only covers up the pain and not fixes or helps the condition get better. I was also told there is a low risk of being totally paralyzed from the neck down if the steroids get into the spinal nerve. So, say no to a doctor that wants you to have it, live with the pain until you can get it fixed surgically or taken oral pain killers, which I did.

So what is the best thing that you prefer laticane patches because that's what I've been using after I had this injections put in and they also burned my Lambert joints or whatever it's in there they burn four of them help

Biggest risk is infection which can lead to sepsis and sepsis kills.

Is one really bad? Or not as bad if u just had one? I didn’t get it right into the joint though just the tissue around.

I got the injection 2 weeks ago and I feel worse now that it was before I struggle to sleep and struggle to get out of bed and walking it worse in constant pain

Got a epidural steroid injection for a herniated disc and it helped tremendously atleast for the time idk what's to come down the road.

Yeah!

My Doctor used give this killing me!

I got a horribly painful reaction. 3 hours after the shot to my knee, my leg, mid-thigh to foot became tight and swollen all around rhe knee. It happened before but not always. It lasted for days. Pain much worse than before the shot.

The world knows the US is bad at math but this may highlight the fact. 100 minus 8 equals 92. So 92 percent of the steroid recipients remained stable or got better. But the 8 percent is the emphasis. The US goes to war and loses one to three percent of its forces and no one stresses on the losses. I have had a shot for trigger finger and two in the hip for arthritis. Both shots worked wonders. Not saying any medical procedure is safe or better because the real tool of healing is the human immune system and the person's genetic. That is the real key to what ailments will be defeated and what ailments cannot be defeated. Your mother and father made that determination for you. But again, I would not consider 8 percent high enough to complain about. But it high enough to alert people of the potential. I don't think the cigarette companies or fossil industries would go out of their way to alert the public about an 8 percent death rate from the use of their products. But it would be nice if they did place that much value on human life.

Dude, can’t move my arm at all and it’s getting worse by the minute, I’ll take my chances.

I've had 2 cortisone shots in my hip. They really help me. I go in for a epidural in my back july 12. Now I'm scared. Now when my first shoot was wearing off my God that pain was no joke. Pain was here for two days and went away. Idk i rather have 2 days of pain than everyday. Clearly don't want to put poison in my body. I don't take pain medication like that. I'm a frim believer never over due one day you might need the meds, and your body will not responding well to the medication. Also I cut meat out my diet for the most part. Also have a exercise ball that I do leg exercise. Also golf ball to lay on to massage the area.

So true can hardly e d my knee without pain

I told a surgeon I didn't want any injections and he said good luck. Come back if you change your mind. I'm glad I never did it. These doctors just want to get paid.

I received my today OMG!!!!

So what’s the answer for the debilitating pain?

What would be the alternative???

I just gotten a cortisone injection in my joint of my right big toe because I have osteoarthritis yesterday. since yesterday it has caused slight paralysis to right leg. I really need a joint replacement because I have very little cartilage in the joint. I'm only 30 years old and even my doctor said I'm the youngest person he has seen with this problem and that by 50/60 I'm going to have to get the bones fused together where I won't even have a joint, and if I don't have a working joint how am I going to walk. I'm a active person always been. was a gymnast when I was younger but since my deformity gotten worse in my right big toe is getting worse where I have had to limit how much I walk, which has been all caused by the osteoarthritis. since I'm an active person this been hard to limit how much I walk on my foot and I truly don't want to be in a wheelchair at 50, so this is a lot I have to deal with. I've been to 3 other podiatrists who have given excuses to not do the surgery. now because of this cortisone injection I have a leg that doesn't work. I had a prior injury to my right leg that had caused permanent nerve damage and the doctor was aware of it. even with the nerve damage I was still able to walk, but now I've been after to use a cane because it feels like I have a dead leg and that all started about 20 min. after the injection.

So is Botox shots in the leg considered a steroid ?

I had an injection just today in my right shoulder for tendinitis

Someone please help !! I had a steroid injection in my foot for a neuroma and NOW my toe hurts when I try to walk barefoot!! Will this is ever get better?!

For what I hear from this conversation injecting steroids is bad, but at no point they give an alternative treatment, I had sciatica due to S5-S1 for a year and nothing I have done, got me anywhere, yoga, physio, vodoo, human sacrifices, nothing works, so tell me what to do

I want n need the real stuff...pm..I have joint pain daily lolol till the dispensary opens lolol

Almost there trying not to have another knee surgery ? Any other medicine that helps?

I got my first one, then suddenly my tendon ruptured

I had steroid injection for my wrist pain. It relieved the pain for 2 weeks. But it came back worst. The 2nd time my ortho would not give steroid anymore because it will damage my cartilage. I ended up having surgery.😊

Why’s he talking like that? 😂

I recently had my first steriod injection to my HIPs. So far so good. Bye the way, I'm bone on bone so no cartilage left for steriod injection to damage.

I KNOW... I KNOW!... so torn about getting another shot. My shoulder fuckin' hurts.... I am waiting as long as I can.

I fell on my shoulder got one injection it cured me. Now years later just get a little stiffness that's all. However, the drug that they use for spinal injections is not even approved by the FDA for this purpose.

I have CRPS and have had 3 nerve blocks this 3rd one they did with steroids decadron. The one before was with lidocaine. The nerve block goes into my neck so i was unaware about this harm that steroid injections cause...

What about shots in the head my neurologist wants to inject steroids and lidocaine into my head My appointment is next Tuesday now I don’t want to get it

What about lumbar injection?

Why they don't talk about what it does to your brain.

I don’t have any cartilage on my ankle and already have bone on bone..

I had one in the elbow 30 years ago the intense pain I had for 10 years from weight lifting injury never came back. I have had 3 in my shoulder the last year and they did not work like elbow but it is better. The doctors I have seen who are surgeons both said cordisone is very safe. So just because these docs are freaking out does not mean they are right.

I have ear ache, and joints pains, all they gave me steroid, in USA disgust me the way treat you like a piece of iron, so sick of this corrupt medical system all is corrupted

How about oral steroids? Are they bad?

When Dr's yell at a camera.....

You could not find an American doctor to agree?

Hello, i am on depo medrol 120mg every 3 months for 18 years now. I have these for reuma. Whitout the shot i Almost cannot walk. When i have my shot , whitin,2 days a can walk again. Yes they say that these shot are not good for you. Bud i have to chose walking ore not walking. Ps i am now 55 years old.

Cortisone ears up your bone Avoid them

Hurts like a bitch the day you get it. Hopefully it improves.

scheduled for lumbar in 1 month..OH..

That's all the pain management is allowed to do nowadays. Just give us something stronger otc . I'm tired of the cattle calls for shots and pharmacys limiting the doctors . Something has to be done because the ER will not help you since the pandemic. Pain is temporary to them and they legally will reject patients who aren't dying. Whoever made these laws is insane. A child with a runny nose has a better chance of getting help on a sunday.

What other avenues are there? I’m scheduled for L4-L5 injections 10-11-2021. I’m 60 years young. I’m always in pain and have to use a walker or on a good day I can use a cane. Please get back to me ASAP! I’m very afraid to begin with. Actually I’m terrified.🥺

Well this ruined my day ... I just received a injection for the first time last week ! Lol 😂 damn !

What is all the shouting about ?

Dnag Dr. Your looking better than the female Dr. On the show.

I have had two injections, and its been perfect for me. 8% is NOT that much, and the truth is if you dug into it, Id bet many of them are addicted to pils, so they swear the injections are no good. Obesity and poor dieting are typical in Americans, putting them on addictive pills creating another addiction for them is NOT a good answer. Forcing Americans to stay within their weight limits and maintaing a good diet to keep their health insurance is a good answer. My problems are in my back, hips and knees from allowing myself to become obese. Now that I have lost the weight(which most Americans say they cant do due to hurting and poor dieting, when the weight and the diet is causeing the pain) I feel like a new person. Rationalization is nauseating in this country, excuse after excuse for why they cant lose weight, and just plain refuse to follow a diet. Thats why the rest of the wortld laughs at us....