Emotional effects of Cortisone injections...

I have read and reread all of these posts again and again. My husband had a cortisone shot on Friday. Saturday his blood sugar was elevated tremendously. That was controlled by his diabetic medicine and flushing his system with water. It remained high for quite a while. What I wasn't ready for was Sunday. I am a minister so I work through the morning hours. I saw my husband in the morning before I left for work. He was fine. Blood sugar had stablized. When I got home from work he was in a rage. The cat was noisy while he tried to sleep. My daughter took a package of batteries and didn't put them back. Our beloved aged Bull Mastiff (who is sick) should just be put down. Our cats and other dogs... gotta go. He attacked my son verbally .... you aren't going to amount to anything. You are a mediocre human being at best... I had to engage the anger at that point because it was so abusive to our 14 year old son, and that escalated his rage. I kept saying that I loved him and that I was sure this was a reaction to the cortisone... but he wouldn't have anything to do with the thought. When my daughter came home from a dance competition he called her a w**** and told her she couldn't go to dance any more. There was more but you get the drift. Again I couldn't help but engaging again because it was my daughter who is about as perfect as any daughter could be. That escalated his rage. Then he started on me ... brought up old issues from our marriage that we worked hard on to heal. His hatred was so venemous you could almost touch it. My heart is broken into a million pieces. He may come out of this but what if he doesn't? This morning he was still in a rage... blaming me for not helping him with some reports for work. (Currently I am not well and have issues to contend with... I fell asleep waiting for him to be ready for work). And how do we, unhear the horrible things he said to us? Broken and thinking the marriage is at its end.

Ma´am, please don´t give up on this yet and go to the extent of thinking about the marriage having ended, or about it coming to an end. Try to help him if you can and avoid engaging with him over matters that he gets worked up about. I´m sure that once he gets back to normal, you´ll gradually heal your wounds through the happy times that´ll come, God willing.

Please get him to supplement himself with Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin B12 if possible. Understand that steroids are a hormone, and if anything interfers with our own body´s hormonal system it´s bound to mess up one´s mind.

All the best! My best wishes are with you.

Warm regards,
Rawal Afzal.

Its more than one year ago you posted this message. How long did you feel that way you describe? I am suffering since August 2016 till now and nobody believes me.....

I've gotten 3 injections in the last four months and have had some crazy mood swings. The shot I got last week set me into a full blown downward spiral. Right now my husband of 17 years has moved all of his stuff out because I can't stand to be around him right now. I'm damn near ready to just get rid of the dog and my kids have had to watch all of this. I don't know ow if it's all irrational or if these things are just making have the guts to finally say I'm done. Either way, I got a shot and now my marriage is over. I kinda feel like it's been a week and I'm coming out of a fog. So what do I do now? Stay with him or go?

Ma´am, it depends on what you feel: do you feel it´s more down to the anger in you caused by the shots, or down to your husband not being compatible with you.

I´d just say, that being well yourself, calm and composed will allow you best to think and decide. If you still feel aggressive, irritated, angered etc., then the bigger question right now is not he, but your own well-being.

Warm regards,
Rawal Afzal.

I use to get these shots. For back pain. Look into radio ablation

I have been reading all of your experiences after being very teary and depressed since the injection yesterday. It was extremely painful injection and they wriggled around a lot to get the needle in the correct spot. The last facet injection I had they injected lignocaine as well as steroid. This time only steroid. I think that's why it hurt so much. The pain was like sciatica 100 times over for about ten minutes. Anyhow I'm glad I found this conversation and glad I haven't had any kind of rage. Just sadness and self pity. Lol.

I started dating this man about 10 weeks ago. He totally swept me off my feet. It has been a whirlwind romance. We fell in love fast and hard and were spending a lot of time together. He was very attentive with texts, phone calls, wining, dining, thoughtful gifts etc. It was on a very positive trajectory. There were a couple times he showed a bit of a temper but it was mostly directed other places until last Saturday. I saw a complete Jekyll and Hyde. He was extremely cruel to me and told me all kinds of things he did not like about me. It was shocking. Our interactions have been almost nil since. Well guess what? He got a cortisone injection the Wednesday before. I did some investigating and figured that over time whenever he had a "bad" Saturday, he had received a cortisone shot the Wednesday before. I am just beside myself. I think we're done. As hind site is 20/20, I remembered that he had had a horrible rage towards his son a while back, so bad the neighbor almost called social services. This stuff is evil, yuck.

I just had 9 injections in my neck. The doctor actually told me not to research it, but now I know i should have....first I raged at my son, then I raged at my father, then I cried and couldn't stop crying. Now I'm depressed. Everything just feels like I'm not good enough or that I could go off at any second. I have no filter, no control over my actions and rage. I fewl for you. But just try to remember that this isn't you, and you do have the strength and the will to get over thisjust like me. And Because I have faith in you and I. Even though you don't know me. I know you can see this through, bc I know that ur a stout person, and how I know that is bc you wrote here. And I came across this. We will get better.

Try supplementing yourself with Magnesium, it really helps. Vitamin B12 and vitamin D might too be good additions.

Wishing you all the best!

Warm regards,
Rawal Afzal.

I had a shot yesterday and the awful emotional rollercoaster that goes along with it. Anytime I have those feelings I go workout or ride my bike to get rid of the"pent up" energy as I can best describe it. Staying in the now may be hard but is essential to not biting the heads off of the people we live with. maybe alternatives to shots can be lidaderm patches or a cream called volteran (sp?). One of the anesthesia drugs they give you for procedures to knock you out does the same thing to me.

About a month ago I had an injection done in my lower back. I have had several of these shots in my upper and lower back as well as my shoulders but never had a noticable difference in my mood till this last one . I think either the coctail was mix wrong or I was overdosed because it really did a number on me and on day two after the injection I went into a blind rage and was totally out of control . The interesting thing was that emidiatly afterwards I was back to somewhat normal in behavior but in extreme shock as I didn't understand what had happened to me .It took about two weeks to get myself together and link the injection to my behavior. I like so many had never been warned about the posibility of this occurring so I finally did a review of my behavior and also asked several peaple close to me if they noticed any strange or unusual behavior before the injection and all replied no but did notice a change afterwards.I went and saw my Doctor and explained to her what happened and she denied any link to the injection she had given meaasked for and said I need.see a psycologist . So I asked for a referal . I watched my Doctors reaction and I could see she was nervous and have a feeling she knows more than what she is telling me for fear of being sued . Regardless I am done with the injections and would rather live in pain then take a chance of hurting someone .

Yes!!! I went thtough the same thing! I have a spinal cord injury severe and I have never experienced this kind of rage since I was married to my x-husband..,the crying, the just hypersensitivity....it did help me but the depression, bipolar side effects are just not worth it. I would rather find peace in the pain than go through that again.

I got rage so bad 3 days after the shot I wanted to either kill myself or run down the nearest person to my car!

I recently had a shot this past Thursday and today...Saturday... I am overly stressed and could not stop crying. Also i am in great pain. Wish i could have received a pain reliever.