I had a medial meniscus repair five months ago via arthroscopy. I fell nine days post op and have had physical therapy for six weeks. I am still suffering with pain, swelling, abnormal gait and collapsing knee. I had a cortisone shot from my surgeon this am. I did not even feel the injection. I slept this afternoon and just finished my first mile walk. Feels great!

My son at 19 years old was having back pain. So he went into his Dr. (a spine specialist) and he gave him a cortisone shot in the spine right there in the office. Now a year later he has thinning of the skin on his spine you can see all of his veins and it is so thin it hurts him to have a shirt on sometimes. It cannot be touched. The spot almost looks like a big stretch mark (about the size of a pop can). I have taken him too many different doctors and no one knows what is wrong with him. He is in pain all the time and this is now starting to spread! I'm starting to get worried!

A Cortisone injection, with anaesthetic, was given into my knee pending replacement surgery ("within about four months"). Pain relief was immediate allowing me to walk almost naturally for about a week. Occasional 'stabs' of pain and 'funny-bone-type' collapse have gradually increased, but pain level has been tolerable. After 10 days, pain is increasing to almost pre-injection level with in-bed pain reaching up thigh towards hip. No side effects experienced.

I am a 20-year-old girl from New Jersey. I had a cortisone shot in my knee to help get some of the swelling down from chondromalacia patella. Right after the shot, before I left the orthopedic office, I developed a severe migraine. When I got home, I was getting worse and worse by the hour. I had nausea, lightheadedness and a migraine. By that evening, I went into a severe seizure and had trouble breathing on my living room couch. My mom had to call 911 to get the police and EMS to rush me to the closest children's hospital emergency room (ER). I had a very severe allergic reaction. I had to be given two litters of IV fluids to help get it out of my body because it made me dehydrated. I spent six hours in the ER and then finally got discharged to go home.

I have had cortisone injections in both hips for bursitis many times, the last time being Friday (5 days ago) I was pain free the next morning. The effects generally last up to a month, and I slowly get worse after that. Sometimes I go back and get them again as soon as they wear off, but this time I waited so it was about 2 months between injections. I have pain for a couple of days after the initial injection, but it is worth it to not hurt every day. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis as well as Fibromyalgia. I am not sure I would be able to work without these injections, as I am a nurse in a busy intensive care unit.

After my injection in the knee I felt relief of pain and could walk without pain. But my BP elevated to 199 for 24 hours and it took me 7 days to get it back to normal with my heart rate racing up and down. It wore me out, but I am feeling better with my knee. It really scared me with my BP and my head hurt really bad for two days. Is this normal, I don't think I will take another one because my heart rhythm was not regular.

An MRI revealed that I had a torn meniscus in my knee, and also arthritis. I could not bend or put much weight on my knee without pain. I saw an orthopedic surgeon, and, without discussing the benefits or possible drawbacks, he gave me a cortisone injection. The next day I felt no pain when I put weight on the knee. I moved around freely for 2 days. On the third day, there was terrible pain in the knee, even lying down! Please, please do not allow a doctor to give you a cortisone injection without careful discussion and instructions! Discussions I have had since then make me realize that the cortisone, which was probably mixed with anesthetic, masked the symptoms, but did NOTHING to treat the cause!