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Is the severe pain at the injection sight of a lumbar puncture followed by leg weakness normal?

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No: Call the physician who performed your lumbar injection imediately. There is concern accross america for those who received steroid injections without preservative from a compounding pharmacy in mass. After may 12, 2012. For complications (fungal infections.).

Dr Schultz agreed

Answered 9/28/2016

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