Kenalog Butt Cheek, Steroid Injection, Disfigurement, Indentation, Tonsils
Posted over a year ago
I had the same steroid injection for tonsillitis this past January in both cheeks. I now too have noticed a large indentation in my right butt cheek. I was never informed of this possible side effect either. I would definitely be interested in pursuing a class action regarding the disfigurement of my previously favorite body-part. Had I been informed of such, I would have just had my tonsils removed!!
Bored - I hate to tell you this, but as a person who works in the medical field and as a patient this has happened to, it fills back in, it takes a while but it will and you will never know it was ever there.
Bored - This could happen with any injection you get. I have worked in the medical field for 22 years and have had several injections and have had an indention happen at an injection site. It fills back up eventually. No big deal. Everything has side effects. Doctors make decisions based upon what they hear from the patient. "I don't have time to be sick, I want something that will get me better fast, I am a terrible pill taker. I can't swallow pills, etc." The older a person gets the more traumatic surgery becomes, especially a tonsillectomy. A surgery that takes a young child a couple of days to a week to recouperate from takes adults weeks and is a horrible pain which causes you to take pills and other medicines that have terrible side effects. So the doctor takes in all the information he knows about each individual and makes the choice that he thinks is the best. I personally hate steroids but when I wake up with a terrible allergic reaction to something that I have come into contact with the night before and have inflammation in every joint in my body as well as external swelling, the pills don't work fast enough for me when I feel that bad, I want a shot. The steroids make me not sleep and they make me very irritable and cranky but controllable. When I feel as bad as I did when I got my last steroid I was irritable and cranky to the point that no one that I was related to wanted to be around me and that just isn't me. Those flares last weeks and take weeks out of my life to start to feeling better. Weeks I don't have to be down and away from work, especially in this economy. So the next time you are offered the choice of a steroid shot, (or any type of injection) or something that you have to take orally for 3 days - 2 weeks (with terrible gastric and colon side effects) that will take longer to see the results, think it over, even surgery will have a long time to recover and has terrible pain as well as more medication. Everyone has a choice but in the long run a little indention in the buttocks isn't such an awful side effect when you compare it to what your other options side effects could be.
Shemcreek - I too had an injection of Kenalog, and to my dismay, have inherited an indention that inflames from time to time. My hips do not match anymore because of this.I wished I had known.I would not have done it.It isn't the worst thing, but when one side is bigger than the other, it makes you slightly annoyed.I do hope that this is only temporary as the other post says.I have never been one to be vain, but a little knowledge about it (that goes for anything)beforehand would have been great.
Mthupp - I have a permanent scar from the polio vaccine that I received as a child. I think we should start a class-action law suite to the makers of that vaccine. because it would have been far better to have polio than vaccinated against it. YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!! A dimple in you butt? Give me a break! Get over yourself. Old age and gravity are going to do a lot more to your body than a little dimple. Just wait you'll seen. Don't forget vanity is a sin, my friend.
Really Upset - I also received a kenalog injection to both hips august 2012 and within 3 days my glutes were gone and I have small dents in both sides I also am suffering from weakness in my legs and pain in joints etc. its not only disfigureing but causeing other problems as well like depression, low selfesteem, fear.I have been lifting weights for 7 years because of other health issues, so that I can keep strong and keep weight on. now I cant even work out due to the weakness this has caused along with how embarrasing it is to have people see my once strong and healthy looking body deteriorate right before our eyes. This is garbage what these drugs are doing to people not only are they makeing our conditions worse in some cases but their robbing us of our lives! I went to my dr. for help to get out of pain that I have had for years. I tried everything else and this was my last resort and not only was I not informed of side effects I wasnt even told what medication he administered nor was I told what to do for after care. I had to get that off line...now I'm 2 months into this and no change! I see another dr. on monday to talk abt some options that will hopefully turn this around but there is no way Im waiting 2 years to see" IF" it will get better. I went for help not to be disfiguered and I agree that this drug should be taken off the market.I cant believe their injecting this into peoples faces and as for those of you who have no sympathy for others well shame on you! p.s. this not only atrophied the fat/ muscle at injection site but my whole body got soft with loose skin so it really runs through the whole system. If I get any answers i will update. Good luck all I hope we all get this turned around soon. Pray!
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