Anyone having cortisone injections?

After a recent incident with a cow on the TB test, I went to see the GP for a check up yesterday, and she said that the x=rays had showed up mild osteo-arthritis in one hip, and severe in the other. The right one has been giving twinges for years, but nowadays aches all the time, especially getting out of the car, etc.
She said she will put me on cortisone injections every 3 months to help the pain, but I wondered if anyone was having it? My sister has serious knee issues and says she has benefitted hugely, but I wondered what it involves as the doc says they can do it at the surgery.
 
I had one a long time ago at the local hospital for an inflamed knee. The injection was painful and the knee pain was a lot worse for about a week. After that it settled down and I've had no problems since. I should think it would be well worth trying to see if it helps
 
Guy I worked with got these injections. Good job but don't plan anything for 24 hours after you get it. The less you do the more localized the injection stays and you get more good out of it. If you work and walk as normal injection gets dispearsed and don't have the same effect. So I'm told.
 

bravheart

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Mum got one into her hip a number of months ago now, done in the xray room to see exactly where the needle was going. Helped for a while but the effects gradually wore off, she was scheduled in for a replacement hip but had to wait 6 months after a cortisone jag.
 

JCMaloney

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As per above, it needs to "stay" where it is put to be most effective.
Also depends on the internal damage, possibility of replacement (??).
Any kind of painkiller is purely masking damage and can lead to more serious issues further down the road...but you don`t realise its deteriorating because of the painkiller...so should only ever be short term!
In the "job" its known as a "TDi".... Treatment delaying injection.
 

milkloss

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The little I know: you can’t have many of these jabs as they turn your skin around the site thin..... a bit like paper. So it is delaying the inevitable: hip replacement. You can have two hip replacements in your life I think and each will last fifteen years so work backwards from the inevitable!!!
 
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Kiwi Pete

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Hurt for a bit, like a giant bee sting, but highly recommended.

I gave my poor body hell with motocross as a teenager and have needed a few cortisone shots as a result, really wish you could buy it at the supermarket as I get older :rolleyes:

As well said above, when you get it be sure to rest up so to get the max. benefit, don't think "I'm cured" and go at life too hard :)

:barefoot: (y)
 

bravheart

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The little know: you can’t have many of these jabs as they turn your skin around the site thin..... a bit like paper. So it is delaying the inevitable: hip replacement. You can have two hip replacements in your life I think and each will last fifteen years so work backwards from the inevitable!!!
Dad went to GP with sore knees, you need replacements was the GP diagnosis, but your too young they only last 15 years and can only be done once(knee).
Ten years of cortisone jags later GP decided replacement was now the order of the day. He got another 30 years out of them. Material and tech. has moved on and I think most should get more than 15 years out of replacement joints nowadays, well worth having done.
 

john1968

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I had one in the shoulder and it worked a treat and is still working, a few months ago got one in my thumb joint and it was good for a few weeks then as bad as ever so for me it depends on where you get it done.
 

agrotron

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Go sent me to get them for elbow pain. Seen the nurse before doing it and she said they basically mask the pain so make recovery slower so advised physio. That was 12 months ago and elbows still aching!
 

DaveGrohl

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Cumbria
I had tennis and golfers elbow in both elbows at different times. Only thing that worked was cortisone injections. I needed more than one for one of my elbows though. Never been bothered with pain since.
 

Bobthebuilder

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northumberland
had 1 a while ago for a dodgy shoulder, didn't make a lot of difference to be honest, it was giving me a fair bit of grief last year and went for Xrays and physio and was told if a needed another injection it would need to be done under anesthetic so they could use a longer needle and a camera so the could get it right into the joint, luckily the physio helped enough to get rid of 80% of the pain and if it gives me much more hassle i go and see a sports therapist who gives my back n shoulders a good going over for £30 a session and that keeps me going, old rugby and farming injuries, oh and not getting any younger :cry:
 

Bobthebuilder

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northumberland
AC joint was knocked out playing rugby and they didn't strap it down so that gives a bit of problem now n then, but also when getting the latest Xrays the radiographer said that i've had a broken collar bone at some point, probably the same time the AC joint was done as it did bloody hurt at the time but the Xray missed it at the time :rolleyes:
 

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