Steroid Injection success (so far anyway!)
8 November 2011 - 12:30am
Hello Dr Bland
Just wanted to update you - I had steroid injections into both wrists in August following discussion with you about whether or not to have surgery on my grade 3/4s.I am delighted to report that I have had no symptoms since, and also that the injections were surprisingly painless with only a couple of days of very slight weakness & bruising. I am hoping that the results will last, but wanted to inform you and also to encourage others to at least give the injections a try. I am hoping that posting this will not mean the symptoms suddenly return! - but i will let you know.
Many thanks
Lindsay
Thankyou for the update. One of the major difficulties in assessing the outcome of treatment is that patients who do well after an intervention are often simply lost to follow up so it's good to hear from some of the successes. Having said that the odds are heavily stacked in favour of relapse after injection and you will probably suffer a recurrence of CTS at some point - just let me know when it becomes a problem (at least until I retire) JB