General Medical issues thread

[JohnK]

Unfortunately it is going to keep recurring without rest

Yes we know.

In my experience inflammation is a funny beast. It can come and go. It might be bad for 2-3 weeks and then it goes away and may not come back.

 

[Katie]

Yes we know.

In my experience inflammation is a funny beast. It can come and go. It might be bad for 2-3 weeks and then it goes away and may not come back.

I’m mot sure bursitis comes and goes like that. I’ll defer to the doctors here!

I was diagnosed with it in both hips around Sept last year (via ultrasound). The cortisone injection in one hip a few weeks ago has been the first thing to make a significant difference to the pain.

As always YMMV, but bursitis felt like constant discomfort to frequent pain for me.

 

[ellen10]

I've had bursitis in the hip and in the shoulder.

With the hip I tried lots of different treatment, physio, medication. One of the last resort after 6 months was the cortisone injection. Its took two days and then it was gone, it was amazing and I wondered why I took so long to have the injection.

Late last year I had bursitis of the shoulder. My immediate thought was cortisone injection. I had to wait 10 days until I could get it done, a backlog in treatments. The doctor ended up injected my shoulder 5 times all at once, painful.
However it was very different with the result. Very little relief even after 3 weeks and more. My physio said that hip cortisone injections were much more successful than shoulders, as the shoulder had more bursers.