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[guppy45]

Just heard a great quote. To paraphrase "there's no such thing as side effects, there are only effects." Calling them "side effects" is an attempt to trivialize potential dangers.

[guppy45]

Approaching 5 months since two deep cortisone shots dented my face.  They are still there and have not improved on their own. I recently started some treatments that have helped a little and I'm trusting the process.  

 

These shots have damaged me and my life. I would give just about anything to back in time and say NO.  

[shraddhaji]

Okay so I wanted to post a happy story to make people feel hopeful. I us to get cortisone shots for my acne cysts when I was suffering from acne. My doctor use to tell me to be very careful who you go to to get these shots because they can atrophy. I never had any problems when I got them done. At the time we didn't have internet and also later on I just never really understood the risks. 

 

Well recently I went through a very traumatic experience and had a lot of stress and I am perimenopause so I started to break out in cysts again. I had two on my face not super bad but big enough that they were bothering me. I went to another dermatologist and asked him if he would inject them. I asked him about atrophy and he said well it can happen but it’s only happen once for him. I asked if how much do you use and do you dilute it with saline. He said he uses .1 cc and yes he dilutes it (I honestly don’t believe it makes it safer if you do this-it can happen to any doctor). I went ahead and did it not really worried that anything would happen. 

 

Well after a week the cyst went down but now it was atrophying. By the way I had it on my cheek where all can see. I started to freak out and went to my other derma who said why didn't you come to me? He started to do saline injections and it really didn't seem to be doing much. I was freaking out to the point I was obsessing about it, not eating and looking every where on the internet for into. This also freak me out because I was hearing so many horror stories and not many successes. I really wish I had realized how bad this can be because if I had I would have dealt with the darn cyst. Any way I just had my third saline shot. The night of the shot it looked good of course because it was filled up. The next day it looked even more indent then the day I had the saline shot! I really went over the edge then. The next day, which is today, I noticed it actually looked much better and right now it looks better then it has since it all happened.  I feel very hopeful right now and after research I decided I would get it filled in even though it could still be healing. I decided I just can’t wait for it to fill in but now I think I can wait if it stays like this. I have been massaging it with Vi-c and other collagen products. I will keep you posted but I really feel good about it right now and just imagine it  filling up. No matter what I think fillers are the way to go. Just think if it takes from 1 month to a year to fill in you might as was well have it filled in so you can have a peace of mind. I will NEVER have a cortisone shot any where on my body!! It just isn”t worth the risk!!

[tracy521]

i had 2 shots indent recently which is like the first time ever for me and the one is filling in pretty well and the other one that was like a huge indent a month ago is already filling in alot but i do take 1000mg of vitamin c a day and i think it helps. i have read that its best to take 1000mg twice a day so i might try doing that as well. i also massage the area too. you could try that for a bit and see if it works but i think my derm did say it could take 6 months or longer to totally fill in so give it more time.

Edited by tracy521, 04 March 2013 - 11:41 AM.

[DC-girl]

I had 2 cortisone shots last month that caused atrophy.

But it filled in on its own within 2 weeks. No big deal. 

 

I have also had atrophy from cortisone stay for months and that time I got it filled with HA filler and it was as good as new after that. Problem solved.

 

My BIGGEST mistake of my life was NOT getting cortisone shots; posts like this one caused me to get scared so I let a mountainous cyst grow until it was the size of a quarter. I finally then gave in and got a cortisone shot.

I wish I had done it earlier because I most likely would have saved myself the scarring from the cyst. 

Lesson learned. The next time (hopefully never) that I get  a cyst I'm having it injected as soon as I know its going to be big and stop it in its tracks.

 

Just my 2 cents from my personal experience.

[dave6677]

High risk, high reward. Emma Stone revealed in a interview she used to have really bad acne, even went on tane at one point, and has gotten a lot of cortisone shots. Her skin is gorgeous and has no signs of previous acne.