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A member asked:

Was given 1 epidural steroid injection. now my muscles are hard/rigid they burn prematurely on exertion & uncharacteristic fat on upper/lower back?

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Dr. Orrin Ailloni-Charas answered

Specializes in Anesthesiology

Contact the : Physician who gave you the injection. He will want to see you and evaluate these symptoms.

Dr Henning agreed

Answered 12/7/2012

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Dr. Jay Joshi answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Epidural: What you are describing may be unusual. You should contact the person that did the esi. Also, make sure that person is a physician and a properly trained anesthesiologist that has completed an accredited interventional pain fellowship and is doing the procedure under live fluoroscopy.

Answered 9/23/2013

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Being a "space" not inside of a tendon/organ/muscle, don't steroids/anesthetics placed in the epidural space remain there forever?

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Without a prior muscle wasting disease in a healthy 23 yr old what reason would account for muscle wasting following epidural steroid inj?

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