Cortisone Shots

[floridanative]

My shoulder injury (impingement) is much worse now after going to PT for three months, using ultrasound there and doing home excercises daily. Well for the first month I got better, then it just got worse and I do not remember doing anything to hurt it. My PT says more PT now will not work and I need a cortisone shot to loosen up my muscle. I'm scared to have one and of course have no idea if it's even gluten free. Has anyone on here had one and if so, did it help, make you worse, give you bad side effects or do nothing?

I have only about 70% of range in my left arm and when I started PT, it was over 80%. I have to be careful how I hold the steering wheel and get dressed in order not to hurt myself. I take 2 Aleves a day for the inflamation and use an ice pack at night after my excercises. I need to do wt. bearing excercises to counter act my newly dx'd Osteopenia but I can't do anything with this arm like that. OH and of course my pcp has to send me to an orthopedist for the shot...another specialist...I'd really like to avoid this if possible.

[trents]

My shoulder injury (impingement) is much worse now after going to PT for three months, using ultrasound there and doing home excercises daily. Well for the first month I got better, then it just got worse and I do not remember doing anything to hurt it. My PT says more PT now will not work and I need a cortisone shot to loosen up my muscle. I'm scared to have one and of course have no idea if it's even gluten free. Has anyone on here had one and if so, did it help, make you worse, give you bad side effects or do nothing?

I have only about 70% of range in my left arm and when I started PT, it was over 80%. I have to be careful how I hold the steering wheel and get dressed in order not to hurt myself. I take 2 Aleves a day for the inflamation and use an ice pack at night after my excercises. I need to do wt. bearing excercises to counter act my newly dx'd Osteopenia but I can't do anything with this arm like that. OH and of course my pcp has to send me to an orthopedist for the shot...another specialist...I'd really like to avoid this if possible.

I've had them before I was diagnosed with Celiac disease and was on a gluten free diet. Didn't notice any adverse affect but then I'm one of those Celiac's without a lot of overt symptoms. If you're concernced about the potential for gluten in the drug, ask the doctor's office where they get it from, i.e., who manufactures it and call that company to inquire more specifically.

Steve