steroid shot side effects

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JMJ

I am so sorry to hear that. Who woulda thought ya know....

My daughter (9yo) and my son (8yo) got one earlier this year for poison ivy. My

sons allergies cleared up alot for a long time and hasn't shown any side

effects but my daughter, poor thing the other day I was treating some chiggers

around her pantyline and I noticed a pure, pure white scar on her bottom. She

said it was from the shot. I checked my son but he didn't have it. I told my

husband because it really looked scary. The next day when I treated her again I

touched it andit felt like there was no tissue underneath the thin scar. It felt

like it went ALL the way down to her hip. Yikes. I don't know what that is or

what to do about it.......

Take care,

Re: Epsom Salts

> what kind of effects are yoou suffering may I ask?

Well, kind of embarrassing really. A few days after having the shot

in my backside, I got a cluster of nasty sore blisters about an inch

lower on my butt. The doc didnt know what it was, but guessed

shingles. I'd never had anything like it before.

The next bout I got exactly a year later in the same place. The

doctor said it was herpes.

I got the same thing a year later. Now I get it every few months

or so and the location moves around.

So, turns out I now have genital herpes as a result of the steroid

injection. Unless it was sheer coincidence that my long term

boyfriend passed it on to me at the same time as I had the injection,

but after 2 years in the relationship, I'd say it was unlikely, as he

never mentioned he suffered from the disease.

It probably didn't help that the day I had the injection, someone at

work came into the office suffering from shingles. The notice with

the steroid dose stated to avoid contact with anyone with shingles,

herpes and chicken pox as steroids make you more susceptible to

catching it.

Jo