disappointing

[alonewiththemoon]

I'm definitely having another flare from the cortisone shot in my foot.  Did some reading up on it, and what I'm feeling is classic.  Even some symptoms of my current illness (headache, nausea, ears ringing) might be due to the shot rather than the snot, as it were.  Essentially what happens in a cortisone flare is that injected medication precipitates out of its liquid carrier and crystallizes, which would be exactly why I feel like there is a small sack of nails and jelly shifting around inside my foot, and causes irritation to everything around it.  Pretty much all you can do is use ice and wait it out, which is what I'm already doing.  Most last 2-3 days.  I'd say I'm on day 3 now, since it didn't start hurting until Tuesday night.  Hopefully it will be much better tomorrow.  Right now I can walk mostly normally when I have shoes on, but barefoot walking, not to mention dancing, is still pretty painful.  I did some dancing last night to prepare for Saturday's show so I know I can get through the show, but man, lesson seriously learned:  do not get a cortisone shot in the foot during the week before a performance that I really care about.

From what I've read, doctors--my doctors, anyway--seem to seriously underestimate the likelihood of cortisone flares.  NFL players get cortisone shots all the time, and apparently their protocol is to assume they will need 2-3 days off after a shot because of flares.  It seems to me that if the flares happen because of a physical property of the medication itself and not because of a reaction by the patient's body, they must be rather likely to happen, especially when the injection is in a small part of the body without a lot of room for diffusion (like between the bones of a foot, as opposed to say a hip or a shoulder).

I was planning to henna my feet tonight; if there's anything to folk etiologies, maybe that will help reduce the swelling as well.  You never know.  There's always tomorrow's zar as well.

Comments

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Damn! I'm sorry that this seems to have made things worse instead of better.

[alonewiththemoon]

Well, hopefully in time it will make things better--some people even think a flare is a positive sign that the cortisone is working, though I think that might be more of a folk belief than the henna stuff ;)

[kinadancer.livejournal.com]

saiidi! hop only on the good foot!

You're going to be lovely, the foot will feel good, no problems!

I'm overtired! too many !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


yeesh, hope you feel better.