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I am about to have some injections in my neck spine that contain steroids to ease headaches. Will these steroids reduce my immune system yet further and for how long?

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Hi anapurna,

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You should ask that question to your consultant hematologist, but my non medically trained answers would be "probably / yes" and "we are not sure".

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