[yldstrk]

One cortisone shot sure helped me when I tore my meniscus. Never needed surgery that time.

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the thread! Here's a paper from last year, fascinating read on hyaluronic acid treatment...

Evaluation of single and multiple hyaluronic acid injections at different concentrations with high molecular weight in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis

[Cold Heart]

This was known to many, 20 years ago. Nice to see the medical establishment is catching up.

[Olog-hai]

Wonder why I should buy what a study by one alleged Dr. Upasana Upadhyay Bharadwaj at UCSF says . . .

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

One treats inflammation of the soft tissue, the other treats the joint.

If you just treat the inflammation and let the joint continue to grind of course it will get worse.

[VeniVidiVici]

I get both injections. The gel doesn’t seem to do much but the cortisone works great - for about a week.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Faith65]

Thanks
BFL

[kaktuskid]

Your body gets used to the cortisone...which is why it stops working

[mass55th]

Arthritis doesn’t matter when you have bone on bone in both knees, and cortisone shots give you relief.

[LegendHasIt]

Cortisone injections worked wonderfully for me when my knees were ruined by too many standing parachute landings and too many hundreds of miles carrying 100 pound + backpacks up and down mountains.

But I gotta keep swallowing glucosamine pills daily if I want to keep them working well and painlessly without regular cortisone injections.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Many moons ago, after 15 years at a large supermarket chain, my lower back decided it had had enough. After some significant physical therapy, the orthopedist suggested a steroid injection into the problem area of the spine. They used, back then, a black & white monitor (xray? ultrasound?) to see and put the steroid where it will do the most good. So.....they numb the skin area, and then put the needle in. Once they believe they are in the right spot, they put a saline solution to see if the medicine will go into the spine, or just around the outside of the spine. The first attempt failed, the second attempt was successful, and they put in the steroids.

For three days, not only did my back feel much better, I felt like Superman. I started singing “here I come to save the day!”

The steroids wore off, and my back still needed A LOT of work. Later on, the doctor asked if I wanted another steroid injection. I stated that physical therapy results in slow, steady, real improvement.

[RobertoinAL]

I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis three weeks ago. Got a shot, and now I have more swelling than before the shot.