The high doses of oral steroids required to be effective can cause some rare but harmful side effects such as an increase in blood sugar diabetes loss of bone mass osteoporosis bleeding ulcer in your stomach and destruction of the hip joint aseptic necrosis of the hip.
Bulging disc epidural side effects.
Localized increase in pain non positional headaches resolving within 24 hours.
While an epidural steroid injection is generally considered a low risk procedure when performed by a qualified medical professional risks and complications may include.
Other conditions may cause similar symptoms of lumbar stenosis including diabetic neuropathy claudication and peripheral vascular disease.
We are not talking about delivering a baby here.
The epidural space surrounds the spinal cord.
Symptoms arm or leg pain.
Nerve damage bleeding infection.
These tend to be rare and much less prevalent than the side effects from oral steroids.
We are talking about the pain of sciatica stenosis arthritis degenerative bulging and herniated discs.
The bones of the spinal column help protect your spinal cord from injury.
They also give your backbone flexibility.
When the herniated disc compresses the nerves in the spinal column leading to pain an epidural injection is often used to relieve the discomfort and pain.
Between these bones are intervertebral discs.
If your herniated disk is in your lower back you ll typically feel the most pain in your buttocks.
Your doctor will use an x ray or ct scan to find the right spot to inject the medicine.
Epidural injections into your spine for your bad discs or pain is not fda approved get the facts directly from the fda website.
People who have a herniated disk often have radiating numbness or tingling in the body part served.
Muscles served by the affected nerves.
The spine or backbone is the hard structure composed of a column of many small bones vertebrae.
These discs cushion the vertebrae.
Lumbar stenosis may be treated with medication or surgery.
Nonetheless reported side effects from epidural steroid injections include.