What are the side-effects of chronic steroid usage, are they reversible?
“After nearly 20 years of injections-on and off-I wound up with skin stretched so tightly against my skull that it hurt all of the time, and lumpy skin around my eyebrow area…. After several months of intense eyebrow injections, the Kenalog ceased to be effective, and the brows fell out anyway.” “(Re:corticosteroids)… I have had no side effects to speak of. Maybe I just have a little cortisone guardian angel on my shoulder.” “I had those shots in my hip and head over the years (not continually) and indentations did occur on my head, hip and buttock areas. Sometimes they were deep! But the steroid eats away at the fat (I’m guessing) and it will eventually fill back in. I felt when my scalp was sinking in. I would get a cold chill on my neck. Sickening for me to recollect. But the shots stopped doing their magic and my scalp is scarred or thickened in the spots where I had injections. It got to the point where the nurse could hardly get the needle through the skin. The hair that did
“After nearly 20 years of injections-on and off-I wound up with skin stretched so tightly against my skull that it hurt all of the time, and lumpy skin around my eyebrow area…. After several months of intense eyebrow injections, the Kenalog ceased to be effective, and the brows fell out anyway.” “(Re:corticosteroids)… I have had no side effects to speak of. Maybe I just have a little cortisone guardian angel on my shoulder.” “I had those shots in my hip and head over the years (not continually) and indentations did occur on my head, hip and buttock areas. Sometimes they were deep! But the steroid eats away at the fat (I’m guessing) and it will eventually fill back in. I felt when my scalp was sinking in. I would get a cold chill on my neck. Sickening for me to recollect. But the shots stopped doing their magic and my scalp is scarred or thickened in the spots where I had injections. It got to the point where the nurse could hardly get the needle through the skin. The hair that did
