Before I got my first epidural injection, my doctor confidently predicted that they would wipe out my sciatica…Eleven shots later, I was seriously questioning whether these shots were capable of curing anyone.
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Epidural Injections: The Weakness in My Bones
So did the epidural injections accelerate the bone density loss in my lumbar spine? I couldn’t prove it in a court of law. Since I didn’t have a DXA scan until seven months after my last injection, I don’t know for sure if the injections were correlated with bone loss. Even if I could prove causation, I don’t think any doctor knows for sure what effect that will have on my fracture risk thirty years from now.