What are the side effects of blocking injections? Hormone drugs should be used with caution

Some patients with frozen shoulder and lumbar muscle strain choose to get blocking injections to control the pain, but blocking injections have many side effects. Like many hormonal drugs, they can easily cause symptoms such as obesity, hairy skin, and changes in body shape.

1. Side Effects

There is obvious pain when getting a "blocking injection", which is the main reason why patients are unwilling to accept it; and in the next 1 to 2 days, local pain may be slightly aggravated. These are related to drug stimulation and increased local pressure, and will disappear soon.

Corticosteroids, like all medicines, have side effects. Such as centripetal obesity, body shape changes, hairy skin, and even beards in female patients; it can also lead to a decrease in the body's ability to resist infection and slow wound healing; it can also aggravate gastrointestinal ulcers, induce hypertension, mental illness, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of the femoral head, etc. However, this is a phenomenon that only occurs after long-term, high-dose repeated use. Generally, short-term local blockade treatment will not cause these reactions. For safety reasons, doctors always use it with caution in patients with severe hypertension, gastrointestinal ulcers, diabetes, mental illness, etc. To prevent infection, closed injections should be performed in a medical unit. Wash the skin with soap and water before closure and disinfect strictly. Observe for 15 minutes after injection to prevent allergic reactions and other reactions. Be sure to keep the skin clean and prevent contamination within 3 days after closure.

2. Precautions

Of course, like other drugs, hormones are not the legendary "panacea". In some cases, the effect may not be satisfactory. If necessary, other methods such as traction, massage, physical therapy, wearing a waist belt, internal and external medication, etc. can be used in combination. If necessary, surgical methods can be used instead.

By the way, some medical institutions or practitioners with unhealthy medical practices add other medicines to general "closed injections", such as vitamin B injections, angelica injections, etc., or use uncommon synonyms, claiming that they are "secret recipes", "special medicines", "imported medicines" or "patents", and increase the prices by dozens of times or even dozens of times to make huge profits. It is worth noting that since they did not clearly tell patients that this injection is essentially a "blockade", patients were induced to go there repeatedly for treatment, resulting in unwanted reactions.