Shoulder problem

[granny grump]

My son-in-law is having treatment on his shoulders. He has had lignocaine injections today & has to go back in two weeks

I though that lignocaine was a anaesthetic so won't it have worn off in two weeks?

[daffy654]

Are you sure it was lignocaine and not cortisone? I had cortisone and botox in my chest/shoulders/rib area for pain but never lignocaine.

[Sqad]

granny. you are correct.....lignocaine is a local anaesthetic and depending upon the dose should relieve the pain instantly for perhaps a period of 2 hours so that the patient may well get the joint moving again.

It is often given in association with a corticosteroid which takes longer to act.

So.....when the lignocaine wears off. the steroid takes over.

Lignocaine can be given without a steroid, if there is just one painful localised area, so your son in law could have had either method.

[granny grump]

Thank you both - he has to go back in a couple of weeks - so we'll see what happens