Painful reaction to injection
Hi When I had my injections I had a reaction that apparently never happens I got like electric shocks up my thumb and index finger the other 3 weren't affected. I'm still getting these shooting pains and don't know if i need to go back to Dr Bland or the dr who did the injections. I was told to post question on here. Many thanks Zara
It happened I think when the steroid was injected or it may have been when the needle went in I was looking away when the procedure started! Dr Warrilow did the injections on the 20th April. He did say that it had never happened before and will hopefully pass unfortunately it hasn't gone away.
If that happens on needle insertion then it usually means that the needle has hit the nerve. Nerves, like other tissues, will generally survive having a needle inserted into them without major damage but some of the steroid preparations can cause fairly serious problems if injected into the nerve so the person doing the injection will generally reposition the needle if you get symptoms suggesting that it may be in the nerve when first inserted. Dr Warrilow should be informed that these symptoms have not yet resolved after two weeks and I will try to send him an email today. If you are free on Saturday we can try to make arrangements for me to take a look at it with the ultrasound scanner. What has happened to the original CTS symptoms so far? (repeating the symptom severity questionnaire on here might be useful at this point) JB
Only just logged on. The CTS symptoms are a lot less and more managable its just this new feeling which is too painful at times to leave. Thanks Dr Bland hopefully you would of heard back from Dr Warrilow by now and we can scan next week?
Next week is desperately overbooked, which is I why I would have seen you on Saturday. The best suggestion I can come up with is to try and take a look at it very early on Tuesday morning - about 8:30am - though the exact time I make it into the office depends a bit on Canterbury traffic. I did get a message back from Dr Warrilow with details of the injection, which he remembers quite well, and he did reposition the needle before injecting. JB
Did you feel that when the needle was first inserted, when the steroid was injected, or afterwards? Who did the injection and when? (It has not come upon my system yet so I guess it was fairly recent). There are several possible explanations for this so we need a bit more information and it is possible I may need to see you again.
I will move this discussion in to the Canterbury patient's forum once you have had a chance to see it. JB