DEPO-MEDROL Reviews (METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE)

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DEPO-MEDROL  (METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE):  Methylprednisolone is used to treat pain and swelling that occurs with arthritis and other joint disorders. This medication may also be used to treat various conditions such as blood disorders, severe allergic reactions, certain cancers, eye conditions, skin/intestinal/kidney/lung diseases, and immune system disorders. It decreases your immune system's response to these conditions and reduces symptoms such as swelling, pain, and allergic-type reactions. Talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of methylprednisolone, especially if it is to be injected near your spine (epidural). Rare but serious side effects may occur with epidural use. Methylprednisolone is a corticosteroid hormone. Methylprednisolone may also be used with other medications in hormone disorders.    (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR DEPO-MEDROLCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
DOSAGE		DATE ADDED
 
 5   M
8/3/2009
 5  Rheumatoid arthritis Is the only drug to get my RA under control suring pregnancy, while breastfeeding and until my other drugs kick in. If you are complaining about the side effects you obviously didnt need it to start with. F 2 years
120mg 1X M		 2/21/2013
 1  supposed trigger point in back Update from 7.5.12 and 7.10.12 postings: side effects of pain in extremities persist as well as extreme fatigue. Also, the injection had no therapeutic effect whatsoever. I have done quite a bit of research on Depo-Medrol and corticosteroids in general since many MDs seem clueless about the side effects of the drugs they most frequently prescribe and have no interest in problem solving. For those with an indentation from soft tissue injections, find medical article "Treatment of Local, Persistent Cutaneous Atrophy Following Corticosteroid Injection with Normal Saline Infiltration" by PETER R. SHUMAKER, MD, JAGGI RAO, MD, AND MITCHEL P. GOLDMAN, MD. The article is in the following journal: Dermatol Surg 31:10:October 2005. Apparently, saline infiltration which is easy to do, works to fix the indentation (but good luck finding a doctor who has heard of this); you should be able to find the abstract for the article online and the paper at a medical school library. A good dermatologist should know about this technique or be willing to investigate it for you. This doctor is familiar with the technique and it might be worth contacting him: MELVIN A. SHIFFMAN, MD, JD Section of Surgery, Newport Specialty Hospital, Tustin, California. For other issues such as muscle weakness, extreme fatigue, nerve issues, get your adrenal glands checked by a GOOD endocrinologist. Corticosteroids are known to interfere with adrenal gland function which can result in a host of uncomfortable to debilitating symptoms. I hope this information might help someone suffering from a terrible reaction to corticosteroid injections. F 1 days
20 1X day		 7/18/2012
 1  pain. I recieved shot Rash 2 week then got rash week later F 1 days
40 mg		 6/3/2014
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