Guest guest Posted August 7, 2001 Report Share Posted August 7, 2001 I had a cortizone shot in my shoulder for " impinging " which cured the rubbing/inflamation problem. The same doctor operated on my knee(artroscopic) and never mentioned cortizone for chrondromalacia. However, they did not know I had chrondromalacia until the srugery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 7, 2001 Report Share Posted August 7, 2001 Sounds to me that you also need to try Glocostrine<br>It will help you to walk better.Also try OPC-3 for<br>pain. The OPC-3 helps to clean out the free radicals that block your Immune system from being<br>able to cure what ails you. In other words your body should be able to cure most deseases that you come into contact with. But because of the way we process food nowadays we cannot keep our Immune system clear. Have you ever heard of a frenchman dieing of a heart atack. No!why,because of all the red wine they drink. OPC-3 Is composed<br>of red wine extract,grape seed extract and pine bark. Try it and feel better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available until now and it will not get better on its own Thanks, Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I tried it and got NO results. I've been having a terrible time with my right shoulder ever since my mastectomies in November. Both shoulders have been bad for years, but it's been almost constant on the right since then. It appears to be an issue with the sub-scapular process or sub-deltoid process, or something like that and I have a massage therapist who has begun work on it. I hope she's right because nothing else has worked so far. Waterloo On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:40 AM, kathy <kkilmartin@...> wrote: > Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many > years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use > steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of > disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available > until now and it will not get better on its own > Thanks, Kathy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Kathy It's hard to say without knowing your medical history, but I would ask the doctor about using local anesthetic to do a nerve block. That may, or may not, also require a type of cortisone added to reduce inflammation to produce longer term relief. Way back in 1985/86 I had injections of Depo-Medrol into my neck for cervical spine injuries from a car accident. A few years later I had nerve blocks done in an OR type setting, but I felt dramatic improvement from the local blocks they did before the procedure! Have you tried anything like Craniosacral therapy, OMT (osteopathic manipulation, Bonnie Prudden, shiatsu or any other massage therapy type techniques? I improved a lot with cranio and OMT. Shiatsu also helped and I also did acupuncture. My point is that there my be other options besides a steroid injection.... Good luck! Kendra On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, kathy <kkilmartin@...> wrote: > Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available until now and it will not get better on its own > Thanks, Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I had one -- once. That was the experience that taught me that the Lyme had shot my adrenals so badly that cortisone drugs were an absolute NO for me. My adrenal system was compromised to the point where I simply couldn't metabolize it. Within about 12 hours, I had what only can be described as 'rhoid rage, like athletes who dope with steroids get. I couldn't answer the phone without picking a fight with the person on the other end. I was yelling at family members. The last straw was the afternoon of the second day, when I terrorized and hit my son. After that, I locked myself in my bedroom until the drug wore off. Literally: I was not fit to be around other people. They brought my dinner and handed it through the door. I didn't answer the phone. It took most of a week for the symptoms to dissipate. I don't care how much recovery I get; I'm never doing that again. To be fair: this was a real outlier experience; but I'm convinced that the disruptions that made it happen were rooted in my Lyme. The pain in my shoulder was somewhat helped by the shot. But I got a lot more gain out of good Pilates-based physical therapy, which broke up the scar tissue from the injury that was causing the pain in the first place. Have also done craniosacral, chiro (several styles), acupuncture, shiatsu, and a lot of other stuff for neck pain (which was ostensibly caused by two rear-end collisions in ten days back in 1984). What finally cured it was getting my thyroid checked and treated. And it got even better after Lyme treatment started, reducing the last bit of remaining inflammation in my occiput and upper neck. I had chronic, constant neck and shoulder pain for 15 years, but haven't had it in a decade now. There are definitely other options besides a steroid injection. It's very possible that your injury isn't healing right due to the Lyme; and that addressing the Lyme and the other issues it causes (like thyroid and adrenal problems) will help put your neck back right as well. Sara On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:21 06PM, Kendra wrote: > Kathy > > It's hard to say without knowing your medical history, but I would ask > the doctor about using local anesthetic to do a nerve block. That > may, or may not, also require a type of cortisone added to reduce > inflammation to produce longer term relief. > > Way back in 1985/86 I had injections of Depo-Medrol into my neck for > cervical spine injuries from a car accident. A few years later I had > nerve blocks done in an OR type setting, but I felt dramatic > improvement from the local blocks they did before the procedure! > > Have you tried anything like Craniosacral therapy, OMT (osteopathic > manipulation, Bonnie Prudden, shiatsu or any other massage therapy > type techniques? I improved a lot with cranio and OMT. Shiatsu also > helped and I also did acupuncture. My point is that there my be other > options besides a steroid injection.... > > Good luck! > Kendra > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, kathy <kkilmartin@...> wrote: >> Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available until now and it will not get better on its own >> Thanks, Kathy > > > ------------------------------------ > > Lyme Disease News continually updated from thousands of sources around the > net: http://www.topix.net/health/lyme-disease > > MedWorm: The latest items on: Lyme Disease > http://tinyurl.com/23dgy8 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 > > Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available until now and it will not get better on its own > > Thanks, Kathy > Yes, I have tried just about all those therapies as this pain goes back 20-30 years. Most therapies made it work. I did love the cranial sacral work tho as it really helped my neck temporarily It should be a one shot deal and my LLMD said it would be okay today. Thanks, Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I had one. It helped a very little bit for about 3 days. The reason it didn't work is because I had a full-thickness tear in one of the tendons (it'd been that way for about a year when I got the injection) and every time I moved the arm it was undoing whatever minute amount of healing my body tried to do. I had the surgery and that spot is fine now. Haven't tried them again for the chronic tendonitis, etc. but only because the pain isn't bad enough to warrant it. It's a good way to get a handle on the pain. The shot not working is what caused my doc to do an MRI, then recommend a surgeon. I was " CDC positive " six ways from Sunday and have had several cortisone shots in various places, including 2 sets of spinal injections with no increase in symptoms. Maybe it's because they're not systemic like prednisone? Good luck! > > Anyone have experience with a sholder injection with cortizone? After many years it is my onl recourse for the pain. I know you should not use steroids with Lyme but this will be a one time injection to be out of disabling pain. I have heard pros and cons. I have tried every tx available until now and it will not get better on its own > Thanks, Kathy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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