Cortisone shots are given as symptomatic treatment for a wide variety of repetitive stress injuries, arthritis, and other ailments. Commonly the injection consists of a mixture of a corticosteroid anti-inflammatory and a local anesthetic to minimize pain from the injected medicine.
Most cortisone injections are conducted in a doctor office and may take as little as a 10 minute visit. The site of injection is cleaned and may be sprayed with a local anesthetic. Then the needle is inserted directly into the painfully inflamed joint for medicine delivery.
After receiving the shot, one might be advised to minimize use of the joint for 24-48 hours. For example, in the case of a shoulder injection immediate heavy lifting should be avoided. Sometimes a cortisone flare occurs when the cortisone crystallizes which can cause intense pain for up to 48 hours even worse than before the shot.
While rare, severe side effects such as joint infection, nerve damage, and weakening of nearby tendons and bones are possible. More shots increase the risk of severe side effects so many doctors limit the number of injections to three or less. Since cortisone shots offer pain relief for only several weeks and work for only about half of those receiving a shot, they should be considered a treatment aid at best, not a cure.
One approach to avoid using cortisone injections is to systemically minimize inflammation in the body and focus on treating underlying causes of pain and inflammation. That’s one reason cortisone shots don’t work for everyone — sometimes they are attempting to treat the wrong kind of pain.
There are two types of pain, muscular or tissue based pain and nerve based pain. Treating the wrong type of pain may result in no impact on levels of pain. That’s why a proper diagnosis of the underlying conditions leading to inflammation is critical for long-term pain relief.
Pros for cortisone injections:
Can reduce inflammation in localized areas
May relieve pain related to inflammation
May be helpful as part of a broader treatment program
Cons for cortisone injections:
Provides pain relief for only about half of shot recipients
Should you get the swine flu vaccine? Infectious disease expert says, “Absolutely not!” I agree and here’s why…
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in the United Kingdom released a new experimental swine flu vaccine into the public. Yet it had only five days of testing! Normally, several months are required before determining safety and efficacy, but not in this case.
The sad part is that most vaccines are unnecessary and even potentially dangerous, even after meeting the requirements in clinical trials. But this new vaccine has not even got that! And the EMEA says the vaccine will be distributed WHILE the trials are carried out.
Are they crazy?! Or are we stupid for subjecting ourselves and our children to this potentially harmful and unproven vaccine? And if the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is proven to have life-threatening or genetically dangerous side effects, what then? A simple recall and perhaps some payouts?
To be sure, the current swine flu vaccination program is huge and perhaps the largest mass vaccination in the past 50 years! And who is behind this experimental drug and its distribution? America’s Big Pharma Legal Drug Cartels known as GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter Healthcare.
Well it turns out that the new swine flu vaccine has been found to be possibly cancer causing by German lung specialist, Wolfgang Wodarg. According to Wodarg, the nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals! Not only that, but it was then found to be linked to guillain-barre syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease!!
But doctors, nurses and we, ourselves, are responsible for giving and getting the vaccine. The problem is that the media plays into our fears and even passes off lies as truth. So without being a microbiologist how are we to know what to believe? Well, after doing some research into the facts, I wanted to share these points with you.
1. We are told that there are no adjuvants in the current H1N1 vaccine. This is a lie.
Adjuvants are a necessary and critical part of flu vaccines. They are used to boost the production of antibodies. And when there is limited supply of a vaccine for a so-called pandemic and the demand is so very high, adjuvants are used to “spread out” or “make more of” a vaccine. Think of how you might add water to spaghetti sauce or sour cream to avocados to make them feed more people.
The worst part is, mercury, squalene and aluminum are often used as adjuvants. If you knew the risks involved you would never consent to take or have the shot given to your children or loved ones.
2. The media has played up the idea that this new swine flu is much more deadly than the regular seasonal flu. This also is not true.
Of course the beginnings of this came from the media crying wolf when a few people around the globe tested positive for H1N1. But it never spread into pandemic proportions as we were led to believe. And so, it was soon apparent to those paying attention that the swine flu was actually no more dangerous to us than the seasonal flu.
Is it still possible that this flu mutates and become the dangerous wolf we were expecting? Sure, anything is possible… including that it fades into oblivion. In which case we needn’t damage our body with a vaccine that is almost certain to create health issues here and now.
3. They tell us that getting the vaccine will protect us against the deadly virus. This is not actually the case.
Yes, getting inoculated will produce more antibodies in us. However, these antibodies are not actually geared to protect against the actual virus and its mutations in real time. They are based on previous years’ viruses and very limited testing. They run greater risk of harm than help.
4. The media tells us repeatedly that the vaccine is safe and we need to be good parents and protect our children. What a load of horse manure!
Does injecting a poison made from cancerous cells sound safe to you? And with such limited testing and trials how on earth can anyone know, even scientists, if this vaccine is safe or will be deadly? They can’t and putting toxic viruses into your body for real to hopefully beat a virus that may not come and may not be the same as during the trials… is too high a health risk to take.
5. Not yet convinced? Think about these scary facts. Most American children are vaccinated nearly 30 times before they are two years old. Sounds reasonable until you consider that even veterinarians refuse to keep vaccinating dogs because of obvious, observable side effects! How about the fact that the Amish do not vaccinate their children and their children do not get autism! Yet there is increasing prevalence of autism among children who are vaccinated.
Man, this stuff scares me. Mostly because I have eight children of my own and I fear for their safety and the health and wellbeing of their friends and extended generation. Personally, I believe natural is better and I only use natural healthcare products, see alternative healthcare practitioners, and try my best to educate people through my publications. So do yourself a favor and avoid this experimental vaccine.
Your best bet is to take a holistic approach and build up your immune system naturally. Here are some tips to keep your immune system working at its best and thus giving you the best defense against the swine flu and every other seasonal flu out there.
1. Avoid sugar, processed foods and trans fats as they deplete your immune system.
2. Get a full eight hours sleep per night to stay strong and rested.
3. Engage in stress relief practices, such as meditation, deep breathing, etc.
4. Get enough of the Omega-3 fatty acids, green and white teas to boost your anti-oxidant levels.
5. Always wash and sanitize your hands and counter surfaces to stop the spread of germs.
6. Eat plenty of garlic, turmeric, ginger and curries to strengthen digestion, absorption of nutrients and fighting of bacteria and viruses in the body.
7. Avoid Flu Vaccines!!!
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It’s an all too common story. People suffer from long-term pain and illness, so they go see a doctor or healer for help and then expect the problem to somehow magically disappear without any great effort on their part.
The problem is most health issues – especially chronic ones – almost always demand time and patient-effort to correct.
When you are dealing with hardcore, powerful pharma drugs, generally your pain or health issue will go away as long as you take the meds. The pain or issue may return, but if you take another pill, it again will disappear.
And since it shows faster results, you would think that patient compliance with Western medicine should be better than that of alternative therapies.
Not so… The FDA reports that billions of dollars per year are lost in the health industry due to patients not filling their prescriptions. And for those individuals seeking alternative methods of treatment for their health concerns, compliance plays an even more central role.
Global is good. But when it comes to the international drug industry, Chinese and Indian manufacturers don’t measure up to the strict regulatory environment we Americans rightly demand for ourselves. Not altogether surprising. That’s why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to protect us.
Advocates of health-conscious living may not be feeling safer, but they have been vindicated in their suspicion of the FDA. But the problem turns out to be much worse than shoddy inspections.The hard fact is FDA’s love affair with China has already killed American patients! Click here to read more… and to find out how you can protect yourself.
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Cortisone shots are given as symptomatic treatment for a wide variety of repetitive stress injuries, arthritis, and other ailments. Commonly the injection consists of a mixture of a corticosteroid anti-inflammatory and a local anesthetic to minimize pain from the injected medicine.
It’s an all too common story. People suffer from long-term pain and illness, so they go see a doctor or healer for help and then expect the problem to somehow magically disappear without any great effort on their part.
