Steroid injection

[Uglow]

Has anyone had steroid injection for pain due to fractured vertebrae!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

No . But had plenty over the years for osteoarthritis- and misdiagnosed GCA (thought to be frozen shoulder!).

[piglette]

Is it anything to do with your PMR? If not perhaps you may be better off looking on one of the other forums.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Can't see why you would - steroids combat inflammation, a fractured vertebra is not inflammation.

[Linny3 in reply to PMRpro]

However, there is a ton of inflammation surrounding the fracture and that can be painful. I have had many steroid injections of different kinds for inflammation due to fracture and ruptured disc.

[Uglow in reply to Linny3]

Did it help

[Linny3 in reply to Uglow]

Some did some didn't. Going next week for another due to fracture at L1 and ruptured disc below it. Let you know how it goes. I am hopeful. It doesn't help at all to take more prednisone, and yet the steroid shot can work really well. Go figure! I guess the shot gets right at the spot that needs the help.

[Uglow in reply to Linny3]

Please let me know how it goes. Thank you.

[whitefishbay]

Had a steroid injection in my ear …for sudden severe hearing loss. I know - not the same area of the body.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to whitefishbay]

But still may have been the effect of GCA

[whitefishbay in reply to PMRpro]

I hope not. Yipes. That's all I need atm. How are you?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to whitefishbay]

Knackered - girls go home tomorrow. Then I shall hibernate for the weekend ...

[whitefishbay in reply to PMRpro]

Wish I could beam in and do something to help you. x

[Broseley]

I had one in my elbow for tendonitis. It worked a treat, but you have to be very careful to rest afterwards for a couple of weeks and the pain gets a bit worse for a while (and is different).

[Pixix]

Had one in my hip...problems with muscles, though, no broken bones! Only helped for 48 hours, waste of their resources as had to be done in an operating theatre...and five staff. This was pre Covid. I had them four times a year in my thumbs for arthritis. But my understanding is that you don’t usually have steroid injections while you are on pred (double steroids), you’d have to ask a doctor if that’s true, or perhaps you’ve been offered one? You’d find more info on another forum, I think, as it’s not PMR related question...if you have arthritis there’s a forum for that!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

Does depend on the type of injection - yours was intraarticular I imagine and they are notoriously unreliable. A depot injection deep into a large muscle (usually buttock) is a different matter and can be used to manage PMR/GCA

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

Don’t honestly remember (partly as it only worked for 48 hours). It was a guided injection, hence so many people needed. The thumb injections for arthritis were good, & id recommend them, but on the wrong site for that, LOL! Lovely to see you back, take care, thinking of you, S x

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

That will have been intraarticular, no guiding needed into a muscle.

Haven't been away - been keeping my beady eye on you all ...

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

Sorry, I got it all wrong again. It was some years ago & I was just trying to help Uglow. Will go back to not commenting again, & sorry I said the wrong thing to you, too, I realise you have not been away, I meant it was nice to see you commenting again. I hope you are coping OK, take care of yourself, S x

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

Don't be daft - you didn't say the wrong thing to anyone. Remember that things said in text tend not to have the sound effects that make it softer - if you see what I mean.

[S4ndy]

I've had steroid injections in elbow for tennis elbow and shoulders for osteoarthritis. Unfortunately, the last one in shoulder didn't do anything. They did give me some relief the first few times, about six months relief. If it works it's great x

[Bcol]

Not had them for anything broken but used to have them in my knees for my OA.