If you’re thinking about having an Epidural Steroid Injection, you may want to think again. Here’s what you should know.

Have you ever considered that having steroids injected into your spine may not be the best strategy? In fact, it could be dangerous, risky, and ineffective and ultimately actually lead to the surgery you’re trying to prevent.

The most common treatment recommendation for herniated, bulging discs or stenosis is to have these spinal injections. Even if you’ve already had these injections, you’ll want to know how to avoid continuing down that path, which can lead to surgery.

Here are my Top 5 Reasons you should stay away from Epidural Steroid Injections:

1. Epidural Steroid Injections are NOT FDA APPROVED! This is not about delivering a baby. It’s about the type of back pain that affects your quality of life like leg pain/sciatica, numbness, stenosis, degenerative disc disease, and herniations. According to the FDA website, Epidural Steroid Injections have not been proven to be safe or effective. Even still, the number one recommended treatment; Epidural Steroid Injections are not intended to help your spine or your discs. They are used as “off-label” therapy in an attempt to temporarily control your pain, all the while your spine and discs are getting worse. Is this really the best answer or strategy for you?
2. Epidural Steroid injections are harmful, have been proven dangerous, and can irreparably injure your spine with severe health consequences. And this is exactly why they are not FDA approved. People who have repeated injections are at even greater risk. Only one injection will cause permanent bone loss and an increase in spine fracture by 21%. Did you even know that or were you told that at the time you got your first injection? But wait, there’s more: Epidural Steroids Injection’s cause: increased blood sugar levels, cataract formation, damage to small blood vessels, loss of vision, possible dural puncture and nerve damage, infection, autoimmune disorders, stroke, paralysis, and even death. Let’s hope you aren’t part of that group. Is this the best solution out there? I believe you deserve more than that.
3. Epidural Steroid injections were never designed as a solution for the CAUSE of your pain or inflammation. Just drugging, cutting, or fusing it doesn’t solve the real reason you have your pain and inflammation.   It doesn’t answer WHY you have pain and inflammation. It’s like putting a rubber band around your index finger really tight, leaving it there and causing pain and inflammation, and then taking anti-inflammatories and pain meds to relieve the pain, while the problem just gets worse. Does that make sense? Of course not. This is the same logic Epidural Steroid Injection takes. So it’s easy to see why the FDA has not approved these for your spine, your disc, or even your pain. It simply doesn’t work because it can’t, and was never intended to do so.
4. Only treating your pain, using Epidural Steroid Injections, is what allows your condition to get worse. This is how you end up having the surgery(s) you never asked for. Before back surgery, people are recommended to get spinal injections first. This “failed promise” only made things worse and lead them down the road to their first surgery, with more likely to come in the future, with lots of pain management along the way. It never ends and just keeps on going. Not a good outcome.
5. The Corporate Medical Complex (Establishment) wants to have its way with you. They want you to believe that anything other than their way is substandard. Power and greed are part of the standardized care that overrides your needs to improve your quality of life. Do you really want to support that or get caught up in an “Injection Mill” type of facility, while your life gets worse? Probably not. I know you are looking for answers to get better and stop the medical merry-go-round that has you trapped. If you feel trapped…you’re not alone.

We know what you have been told by your doctors, the failed attempts you’ve experienced with strategies, treatments, and therapies that did not provide a solution for you. Because we offer a 100% non-invasive, safe, and highly effective Disc Healing Solution, we attract people who don’t buy into it and can see beyond the medical establishment, the status quo, or corporate-controlled doctors. We attract people who are committed to looking for real answers to their real problems. If you’re looking for a true solution and a better strategic approach, check us out to see if you qualify as a candidate for our unique and different Disc Healing Solution.

Your quality of life is the most important consideration. We are committed to that and are standing by to help with a new possibility created with you in mind.

When you can turn things around, and get your life back on track, everything gets better: your career, time with family and friends, leisure time, exercise, and life in general. We understand you and your needs, that’s why we are so passionate about what we do here at Exclusive Nerve and Disc Centers.