BF2S Forums medical question c3 threw c7

Wow, all I gathered from that is you must have broke your back? What happened?

jessefer wrote:

i am about to receive my 4th cortisone injection into my neck and was courios if any one else has had it done.
side afects  short term/long term

i have noticed a great deal lf upper body weakness and sharp spikes of pain in my shoulder blade. the doctor has been injecting them into c5.  c3 threw c7 is the dameged area.


any help would be great

A medical forum or your doctor may be able to answer that better than we wikiites. But who knows, maybe there's a brain surgeon among us.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-03-06 17:45:55)

ryan_14 wrote:

stryyker wrote:

Well, since cortisone is a mild steroid

Really? I use hydrocortisone on my stupid eczema shit. Maybe I'll become a superhero.

ZOMG! DRUGGIE!     just kidding in response to this: http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 9#p1259189

King_County_Downy wrote:

Wow, all I gathered from that is you must have broke your back? What happened?

c = cervical i.e. neck
t = thoracic
l = lumbar
s = sacrum

OP:
what did you do that hurt 4 of your neck vertebrae? ouch.

I just bought a traction device for my gf off an infomercial the other day. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me but they made it sound pretty good on tv. Have you ever tried anything like that? I'll try to find a link for the one I bought.

Its probably all mental. Seriously though.

Those discs are soo close to your brain, that the steroid could be interrupting signals on the spinal chord

King_County_Downy wrote:

I just bought a traction device for my gf off an infomercial the other day.

jessefer wrote:

yeah iv used traction machines thats about as mideval medicin as you can get

GJ King.

jessefer wrote:

stryyker wrote:

Its probably all mental. Seriously though.

Those discs are soo close to your brain, that the steroid could be interrupting signals on the spinal chord

thats what its saposed to do i thought. numb and relax the area

It would also explain the pain. With me, at least, when I got it injected in my knee, it swelled the muscles a little, causing some bad pain from my upper calf all the way down to my ankles.

Dunno, take a shot of JD and walk it off

this has been going on since 6/20/06 i cant drink any more becouse of the bufea of pills im on now. besides they f me up better then booze. wow i cant believe i sed that!!!

jessefer wrote:

i am about to receive my 4th cortisone injection into my neck and was courios if any one else has had it done.
side afects  short term/long term

i have noticed a great deal lf upper body weakness and sharp spikes of pain in my shoulder blade. the doctor has been injecting them into c5.  c3 threw c7 is the dameged area.


any help would be great

Jess,

I've got a nice 2 sided approach for you. When I was 16 I tore my ACL and medial meniscus, and broke my femur. I've had knee problems since then, and have had injections. Also, I'm a paramedic, so I know a LITTLE about the medical side.

The injection is most likely not just cortisone (as that would burn like you can't even imagine). Most likely its a mixture of lidocaine or benzocaine and cortisone. The first part is to numb the area, and the steroid (cortisone) is to decrease the inflammation around the affected area. So, the doc thinks that your pain is caused by inflammation of the tissues around the vertabre, as opposed to damage to the vertebral disks themselves.

Neither of the chemicals should cause nerve conduction problems, as they can't penetrate the mylar sheathes of the nerves in the spinal cord. It's the nerves that terminate around that part of your neck that are hurting, and therefore are treated.

The upper body weakness is logical, as there is a numbing agent in the injection that would last for 3 or 4 days. As to the shooting pains in your scapula, I'd ask the doc. I don't know. It could be a sympathetic reation from the lack of sensation in the C3 area, but I just don't have the training to know.

Regardless, best of luck, and feel better.

Lets clear up what cortisone does.  It is NOT a pain reliever, it is NOT a muscle relaxant, and it is definitely NOT any type of local anesthetic agent that would interfere with the transmission of nerve impulses and "numb" the area as people have suggested.

Cortisone is simply a strong anti-inflammatory.  Steroids in general are immune system suppressors.  Inflammation is the first sign of an immune response.  Steroids intervene and reduce inflammation.  This is good in the case of pinched nerves because it may relieve some of the pressure on that nerve.

Any pain or weakness/numbness etc you may experience in the extremeties is likely a result of the pinched nerve, and not the cortisone injections.

But anyway, sorry I couldn't give the perspective of a brain surgeon or whatever...........but the perspective of a dentist will have to do.

KiL