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A member asked:
Dequervains, 1 cortisone shot good for a month, how many more before surgery is indicated?
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Try one more,: if no long term effect next is surgery. I always used injections as a temporizing treatment, to allow a more suitable time for the patient to prepare work schedules and so forth. if they happened to get long term relief, then no surgery until injections don't work after 1 or 2.
Answered 11/28/2017
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