Steroids, do they help or hurt? |
After being told for the third or fourth time that I should consider steroids for degenerative disk disease, I decided it was time to research a little further. In the past medications have not really done much and as they tend to cause problems like liver damage and addiction it was decided to try and stay away from them. The process of Epidural Steroid Injection itself seems simple enough, the risks are somewhat scary and it sounds and looks very painful. At this point I’m trying to gather input good and bad to make a decision on what is best.
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Kara - I did some Googling and located the following information via:
www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/epidural/feature/ep02.html
Quote: “Steroids (corticosteroids) have been shown to reduce inflammation by inhibiting the production of substances that cause inflammation, the epidural steroid injection can be highly effective because it delivers the medication directly to the site of inflammation.”
That site seems to have a lot of information on these steroid injections, including risks and side effects: www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/epidural/feature/ep06.html
I’m still learning more about pain related to these injections but from what I’ve read so far it seems like they use something like novocaine from the dentist.
Comment by TDavid — November 28, 2005 @ 12:21 pm PST