By Bianca on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 11:20 am:

Posted by Bianca on April 08, 2000 at 07:42:12:

I have a tendonitis on my left ankle ( pereneus tendon). Now the tendonitis seems a bit better, but the inflammation is jumped two centimeters down to the bone skin (periostitis means my rheumatologist, I mean it is the endpoint of the tendon). Four days ago I got an cortisone/lidocaine injection on this place. My doctor told me something like that it would work for a week or two. It worked for 24 hours. Now the pain is worse than ever. Has anybody similar experences with local steroid (Cortisone ) injections? Or has anybody a good idea what to do with periostitis?
Thank you.

By Kathi on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 11:21 am:

I had a local steroid injection and had the same results. I later had 3 steroid injections right into the joint. It was painful having the injections, but 5 years later, still pain free.

By Anthony on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 11:22 am:

Well anytime I had cortisone all I can remember is the pain form the shot hurt just as bad as the tendonitis, and if it worked at all the 24 hour mark was about it... Mine is in my wrist, so I wear a wrist brace to keep the tendons from rubbing ontop of one another and lots of Ice.. Sorry I couldn't be of any real Help! Be careful with cortisone, it covers the problem.. and you can end up with worse things.

By Kathie (Kathie) on Friday, June 09, 2000 - 01:51 pm:

I've had cortisone injections for secondary OA which were great - while they lasted - but my sister (who also has HMS) had several for tennis elbow and they had absolutely no effect whatsoever.
The steriod is usually mixed with a local anaesthetic (which helps make sure that the shot is going to the right place). You're supposed to rest the joint for 24 hours after the shot - but my shoulder felt soo good for the first few hours after I had the injection that I did lots of the things I had wanted to do in the weeks up to the shot but hadn't been able to because of the pain. BIG mistake - I was in absolute agony when the local wore off - the pain was horrible. It did calm down after a while but only after I had spent a night in agony unable to move my arm at all and counting the minutes to the next painkiller! And I would agree with the comment re caution - steriod weakens our already delicate connective tissues and so should be a last resort.

By Bianca on Saturday, June 10, 2000 - 02:28 am:

Hello,
thank you very much for sharing your experiences and your knowledge.
This story with cortisone is a few weeks ago. And here is my experience. The first day it felt good then I had terrible pain for the next six days, then the place we did the cortison in was okey but the pain had jumped to another place, to the bone on the upper side of the tendon. So I think for me it is a very mixed experience but for the moment I would not try another cortison injection.
Anthony,
I have tendonitis in both wrists, too. I found it never as disturbing as in my ankle. So we never tried with Cortisone there. I got it by walking on crunches. Now I don't walk on crunches since four months and I use braces, too, for hard wrist work like household, writing on the computer and so. I feel good with this and pain has get a lot better during these four months.