Do Steroid Spinal Epidurals Make You Worse Or Better? (Page 2)

Hi, I wanted to ask if any of you have had any success or made worse having steroid epidural shots? I had one 8 weeks ago for the first time. I don't have major spine problems but did get thrown out of a car in a wreck. My dx is lupus, hernia, lymphadenopathy with B symptoms, and my foot is numb. Lupus has an entire list of symptoms so I won't engage on that. I'm trying to explain the best of my ability how I feel after my first inj. I have pain at times like it's heart attack symptoms, I have fluid retention, it hurts to move my neck, it hurts to walk and I've currently been unable to run our company in the last 3 weeks. I am so much more weaker too. I know this was to help joint pain but I feel it's set off more problems than I bargained for. Also prior to the epidural, I was running a fever and I run a fever a lot with lupus with a low white blood cell count. I tried explaining this but the drs office stated I couldn't have the one pain medicine I get if I didn't have that shot. Never in my life have I seen how a dr's office can hold you hostage for one medicine. I can't take any of the better pain meds and went through several until I could find one to work so I didn't want to lose that. I'm also wondering how can so many patients be taken off an FDA approved medication and be given an expensive non FDA approved inj.? That's backwards! I would love to hear some of your experiences with this type of procedure & what your condition is. Thank you!

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Re: Margonot (# 19)

That's an interesting post! I will try that as well. I know I'm willing to give anything a try that makes one's body feel better. I think the neck is setting off a lot of my headaches & I just started getting migraines this year. I do know one thing I found for my headaches that honestly worked a few times & that's lavender oil! Some of you might want to give it a try! I know there's so much stuff that can help us in conjunction with other treatments. I'm learning everyday on these forums! So again, thank you all for replying & opening up about your symptoms & other stuff. It's a big help!

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I had the injection for sciatica pain. It was miraculous for me. No more pain.

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Re: Elgee (# 12)

Min does too! My old Neurosurgeon also did surgeries on our local professional players. Where do you live?

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Re: Me (# 23)

I'm in RI, but my doctor's group is New England Orthopedics in Natick, MA.

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Sorry to hear you're suffering so badly. I have been receiving steroid epidural injections for at least 10 years. I sometimes get L-4-5 injection, C-3, and also my SI joint. I also recently had cervical injections as I also have chronic neck pain. If this was your first epidural, your doctor should have scheduled another one two weeks later. My first was a set of 3 consecutive injections, 2 weeks apart. That is most likely why it didn't work. The only other reason would be, he was not in the right area. I hope this was some help. Good luck with everything.

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Re: Margonot (# 19)

You are so correct! I had spinal surgery 5 years ago and just this year, recently, I am having pains and all the same symptoms I had five years ago. My surgeon says I have a massive herniated disc in the area above my surgery. Beginning to feel like a future Tin Man/Woman thinking surgery is a very slippery slope and that's why so many have several spinal surgeries. I read a book by Tom Griner who practices neuro-soma, dealing with muscles, not skeletal structure. In fact, he won't even look at MRI results. Says all our pains that surgeons operate for are mostly curable with his body work. It may take a year of body work and is very expensive but a friend swears by Griner and says he saved him from having fusion on lower vertebra. I had fusion, regretfully, and felt GREAT until now...I am desperately trying to avoid surgery because I truly believe it is not a cure but a mere postponement for future issues. Everyone, even if you reject his thinking, just go to AMAZON and look up Thomas Griner and get a used copy of his book. He was a NASA engineer and then chiro who came to believe surgery and altering the spinal bones was not the answer. That everything else gets thrown out of whack and causes pain by compensating. There is no MRI program for muscle - he's trying to get funding but not much interest. Just Google "neuro-soma" and read about it. It truly makes sense to me - more so after having surgery.

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Re: Kelly (# 4)

I am trying to get my nerves burned in my back. I did it three years ago and it did very well for me. The reason I haven't repeated it sooner is I had a triple bypass last year. Now I am faced with my cardio Dr. Agreeing with my pain Dr. I need to be off plavix, blood thinner, for seven days and my cardio Dr. Says he can only approve five days off. My pain Dr. who does the procedure says he will not do the procedure with me only off five days. I don't know what to do now. There has to be a signed release before it can be done. I haven't given up yet and will talk with my cardio next week. My pain is getting worse every day. I can't have surgery so this is all I have other than doping myself up. Any thoughts anyone?

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Re: Kelly (# 4)

My old doctor gave me 2 back tractions. Doesn't work. I had back and hip shots with a skin infection from wounds that wont heal from an allergy to hardware in my broken ankle and I got hit by a van as a pedestrian. I got facial cellulitus, rashes and a swollen face. It did help, but I'm weary of side effects as I have lichen planus and hashimotos. No one I know feels better after back surgery or spinal electric nerve stimulation placement. Sauna, relaxing, turmeric, taking it easy. Opioids made me over do it and I was prone to muscle spasms. If a person gets an infection your brain might not know what is going on and doctors tend to not want to diagnose you and list you as crazy and it is just your opioids. They are the first to ditch you when you get a new medical problem, just like hard core drug dealers. Opiods in the long term will eventually kill you. I call it the silent mass killer with no discrimination. Did you donate your body parts? I did not.

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