Well, my doctors will use cortisone only rarely, not any more often than every 6 mos in my wrist and in some tendinitis years ago wanted to wait a year to do any more.  They call it dipping into the well too often.  This stuff even when localized does affect the body system.    I can not take any sort of Prednisone even with its many uses since I over react and get much too antsy and jumpy, very uncomfortable.

All I suspect I am getting in the wrist joints is lessening of inflamation and frayed nerves in that area.  There is no healing, just pain control.

As for the photos, I was surprised the doctor was eager to do it.  The combinaion of him and the nurse with the camera was a miniature play of its own.  They actually enjoyed this different break from the norm.   I am not needle shy and was able to cooperate well for the "shoot", unorthodox as it might have been.        : )         Tom

The photo just shows where the injection was to be made. The reddish stuff is antiseptic, nothing more.