Anyone had success with cortisone shots.
So back in 2018/19 I fractured my right-side AC joint which pretty much prevented me from training upper body. Few weeks laters I was given a cortisone shot and eventually my joint started feeling better over days and even better over the weeks. Eventually I would says it got to 90% recovery.
However recently whilst training incline on the bench I lost slight balance to the right side and the pain has now returned and I believe it is again the AC joint that is fractured.
My questions is would a cortisone injection be effective again for the same injury and also are there any other options I can look into I will be calling doctors on Monday.
I already take high amounts of supplements for joint support since my first injury and I think that also did help combined with the Cortisone.
PS: I have seen some suppliers selling cortisone shots - do people actually inject themself?
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Wife had a bad car accident, doctor decided cortisone shots would help, fast forward 20 years and multiple shots caused her to have weakened ligaments. Now she lives with the pain it caused with the help of her med card to dull the pain. One or two I would say ok, after that it's buyer beware.
Cortisone not good for you one bit. stick to flat press and heal same way as previous
Thanks brother I have been reading up on that.
I have had one for a shoulder problem, years ago and the relief was not at all worth the potential problems from cortisone. I note too, that Shred hit on the one point that scared me most, the doctor injecting you makes a mistake and you are next to crippled due to the damage that can be done. On a risk to relief value, I rated it zero.
I am going to go for MR scan and hopefully and peptides to my supplements.
My MRI showed a (big word here) osteomitochondrial tear (a pinhole in the cartilage) which you cannot see unless directly pointed to. It is literally the size of the head of a pin, but, while not having ever been shot, I would say feels like being shot by a gun on a bad day. Nandralone helps big time, nothing else, except lifting lighter, maybe quality fish oil, and rest. Now the caution part....
I was offered 'keyhole' surgery, which sounds great, but if the doctor screws something up in the process, and it seems many do, then off comes the whole shoulder to fix the screwup and stitch it back together, and I would have been screwed for life. I decided to lift less weight. During a nice NPP or Deca cycle, I can get back to the crazy weights, it never gets worse, just hurts a lot. I can live with that.
OMG the whole shoulder off and re-attached??! Lmao No thanks ....
My exact thoughts.... that is one unnecessary risk; especially when one usually just trades one pain for another, often worse.
AnonMy sports medicine doctor won't give me more than 3 cortisone shots in one area because it's harmful after that. Sure it decreases pain and inflammation, but it doesn't heal things like you seem to think it does. Physical therapy, ice, and rest heals. I recommend an MRI to see what is really going on.
No I never injected myself. My sports med doc uses ultrasound to guide that big needle in to the sweet spots.
Maybe find a steroid source on here that has healing peptides like BPC-157 and/or TB-500 and try one or both of those peptides along with physical therapy exercises, ice, and rest.
Thank you that's a lot of good info I have started using ice and already noticing slight improvement will get MR scan and see if physio may help.
But will check out the peptides just afraid of injecting close to joints.