Steroid Injections?

sailrib
sailrib Member Posts: 327
edited 25. Sep 2013, 05:56 in Living with Arthritis archive
I've only ever had steroid injections in both feet once as then they wanted to operate on me instead.

Now I'm having some injections on Saturday in my left foot as my early stage of arthritis in 5 of my joints has now progressed to bone on bone and is now very painful. They are less egar to operate this time as midfoot fusion is way more difficult.

I'm wondering how often you can have steroid injections in to joints before they say its enough, no more or is there not a limit?

Thank you :)

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  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I'm not sure about 'a limit' but I do know that, in my case, the more I had in a particular joint the less they worked. I think this is par for the course.
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Steroids are not a long-term treatment because they only mask the trouble, not solve it. They also affect (by thinning) all body tissues hence the general reluctance to give us too many. They are also curious little beasts in that sometimes they work and other times they don't. All we can do is make the best-informed choice that is available to us at the time and hope for the best. I wish you well for Saturday, please rest for a good long time after in order to give the steroid the cahnce to really 'sink in' to give it the best shot at working. My hospital told me to bed-rest for 48 hours post joint injections, I religiously did but never got much relief. :roll: DD
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