Hi Judybearden1: This steroid injection is totally different. My surgeon also told me he would give. I opted not to take it with him. I doubt he knew how to give it. First of all he did not know about it. He talked to his friend doctor who told him that I need to see a dermatologist who will give me a steroid. Now, mind you, this was all because I had developed a scar keloid. My nurse friend brought it to my attention. Until then I did not know about it and when I asked my surgeon he told me it take a year to 18 months to heal. When I told him it was a keloid he contacted his friend to find out what it is.

This steroid is, as I mentioned, given in the skin, not only in one place but three places or so depending on how big the scar is. I got three pokes at a distance of about an inch and half on one knee and the same with the other. The dermatologist releases the medication little at a time on each spot. It is given just in the top layer of the skin. You can actually see the needle under the skin. So, this is not like the steroid injection that you take in your shoulder or knee before TKR, etc. which is usually one poke and you are done.

This steroid injection has helped me to bend my knee a little better, walk better and the warm feeling and numbness has reduced though not totally gone which according to the surgeon will take a year to 18 months. I had gone to another ortho surgeon for a second opinion and he told me the numbness is permanent. I don't know which surgeon to believe.

Overall, I am feeling much better although the pain has not completely gone in my left knee which was done a year ago, on Oct. 30th 2019. The second knee was done on May 20, 2020 and the pain is not totally gone but it is getting better. I feel it is too early to expect total no pain in comparison with my left knee. I walk every day for 1/2 hour, I work in the yard, do household chores, etc.