It’s been one week since I had both knees anointed with a steroid jab. My GP pushed for it thinking that I needed a break from the pain game. So, like @Poo_therapy, always after the best interests of my physician, I said, “sure, go for it!” He looked a bit too happy for my liking but it is important to “throw the dog a bone” now and again. The injections didn’t really hurt and it was over in a few seconds. My typical response to a few spinal and knee injections quite some years ago has been, “Why do I always get chosen for the placebo?” Three hours post injection and my knees started to ache, after five hours I was in agony, barely able to walk stick legged. It lasted all night even after 1200mg Tylenol. The pain eased off by noon the next day but my knees felt wobbly. Five days later and they feel real good, in fact, I feel pretty good all over and psoriasis spots have tamed down. I wish I could feel like this all the time, it is a real pleasure to not have that constant furrowed brow pain issue and just relax. For those of us with this disease, I think we forget what life without pain is like and just deal with it one step at a time assuming that it just is what it is. Constant pain is wearisome and I suspect that this relief will be short, I already have signs of pains returning…but feeling good has caused me to be more physical in the past 48 hours. I was told that the injection might help for days or months. Have any of you had long term success from steroid injections?
I’ve had great success with steroid injections for bursitis. Joint injections are definitely more temporary
Like @Stoney bursitis steroid injection into my hips, each side on a separate occasion as in years apart were curative of the the bursitis for me. The relief came within 24 to 36 hours quite magically.
I’ve never had a joint injection as actually none of my joints would require one really other than my SI joints presently. My joints can blow up magnificently sometimes to incapcity levels but it’s always relatively short lived. As in over in days.
Most of my long term issues continue to remain tendon based and I certainly will not permit a steroid injection into any of them as sadly that’s the quickest way to permanently damage that tendon as the steroid can literally make them fray. Very much so for things like achilles tendons and peroneal tendons both of which are playing up considerably for me presently.
From what I hear about joint steroid injections, is exactly what @Stoney said too. Along with the immediate after pain you described @Amos which takes a day or so to calm down. Unless it’s bursitis I don’t imagine steroid injections into joints provide anything more than a welcome temporary reprieve which could be of some months duration in some cases, but some weeks tends to be more normal instead. And don’t forget all steroids can give an additional initial euphoric feeling for most of us too.
Thanks for the reply. I wonder if you or any others in the UK that use this forum were hit by the storm?
Thankfully not. Living in the Southeast we merely got a some windy weather. It was the west of the country and especially Wales and Northern Ireland that took the brunt of it. Thank you for asking.
My left knee has avoided replacement with kenolog injections. I am told it’s bone on bone but I’ve managed to avoid surgery so far.
I’ve probably had 10 or more in that knee over the last 15 years.
I’ve had left knee injections at various times over the years. And up until it was bowing inward and totally bone on bone it helped with pain usually for a couple of months. So hopefully you’ll get a real reprieve. (You may remember I ended up having the knee replaced a few years ago) I still deal with a bit of pain there, which I attribute to cranky tendons and ligaments, but nothing like it had been. Oddly the other knee is, per MRI, also ‘really bad’ but it doesn’t bother me. Go figure 