Severe muscle weakness and pain after one shot of cortizone in hip, what happened to me?
I had a cortizone shot in my hip Thursday morning. By Friday night I was in bed moaning in pain. Every muscle in my body hurt. It hurt to move. My hands and lower arms went completely numb when I went to sleep for an hour. It took about 20 minites of moving my hands and fingers to feel them again. My hands were swollen and I could not touch my normally thin fingers to my palm. The muscles in my wrists fingers and everywhere just hurt so bad. Then I got up to go to the restroom, I could hardly make it to the restroom without passing out and I fell once. I could not lift my arm to get a glass out of the kitchen cupboard. I yelled in pain just to try to lift my arm. I ended up getting a glass out of the dishwasher. I tossed and turned in the worst pain that my whole body has ever been inflicted with in my whole life. Oh wait no I guess labor pains were similar. Then in the morning, I got in my car to drive myself to urgent care. I could not turn the car key. I winced in pain and had to us
