Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains why steroid injections into joints carry real risks: they can speed up arthritis, make surgery more dangerous, and cause metabolic problems for people with diabetes.
Within six months.
2. Intraarticular steroid injections can even accelerate arthritis further. These types of injections into tissue or into joints can make surgeries in the future risky. There are studies that have shown that if you repair tendons that they have an increased failure rate if you have injected steroid within six months. They can also lead patients to be more dependent on pain medication. They can cause metabolic problems with diabetics. So overall, steroid injections can be damaging to your tissues and to your body as a whole.
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