Any experience of RLS aggravation from steroid injections?

[John_naylor]

My RLS seems to worsen about this time of year and I noticed it coincides with my annual injections for arthritis. I believe they contain cortesiosteroids which I couldn’t find on the known, common RLS aggravators.

[Elffindoe]

You may be right, but I 'm not sure why this should happen.

RLS is made worse by inflammation and anything which reduces it should relieve RLS.

Steroids are not known to be an aggravator.

[John_naylor in reply to Elffindoe]

Thanks, I have an appointment Mon a.m. for an injection and wanted to avoid making my RLS worse!

[Elffindoe in reply to John_naylor]

You should be OK.

[Guitarpickin in reply to John_naylor]

Hope your injections on Monday went okay and that your RLS doesn’t flare up.

[Guitarpickin]

I recently had a steroid shot in my shoulder and it had no impact whatsoever on RLS.

[ELLSBELLS]

Have annual steroid injection in shoulder and no effect on RLS.

[WideBody]

If I remember correctly, I was given prednisone for a rash. I had to stop taking it.

[John_naylor in reply to WideBody]

Can’t see prednisone on the ‘to avoid’ list but some names vary from one country to another and the attached is from the American RLS.org site.

RLS.org alert card.

[John_naylor]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

[Eryl]

Arthritis is an inflammatory disease and RLS is most often caused by inflammation of the nerves so I would suggest that you investigate 'anti inflammatory diets'. The reason it increases at this time of year is that people tend to eat a more inflammatory diet of comfort food over winter.

[thewanderer]

As an Ulcerative Colitis sufferer I have to take the steroid Prednisolone on quite high doses to control Colitis on roughly a 3 month basis for about 6 weeks on each occasion. I find this is the only time I get any relief from RLS. I have been troubled with both conditions for around 20 years. There is no doubt that prednisolone is providing relief from RLS for me.

[Shumbah]

I have traumeel injections instead of cortisone , I found it works a lot better for me as it sends the nerves to sleep ands it homeopathic .

[FluteE in reply to Shumbah]

I’ve never heard of this type of injection. Where can I find more information on this?

[Shumbah in reply to FluteE]

Depending on where you live it has been used in europe for 60 years and USA about 40 years.widly used by vets world wide.

I would google Traumeel injections L .A .clinics have good info on their websites

[Dustylee22]

I recently took prednisone for a flare up of hives & I had a terrible reaction: my legs went crazy & I was pacing in the middle of the night. Since I get chronic hives every winter, I have taken steroids without any problem in the past, but I won’t take them again. It was absolutely the worst my RLS has been in years & I had to stop the prednisone abruptly!