Groups Angered Over FDA Warning on Epidural Steroid Injections
From the article:
The FDA’s warning that use of epidural steroid injections (ESIs) may result in “rare but serious adverse events, including loss of vision, stroke, paralysis and death” drew a strong response from societies whose members offer such pain treatments.
The FDA required the addition of a warning to the labels of injectable corticosteroids to describe these risks. The FDA also declared on April 23 that the effectiveness and safety of ESI use has not been established. The International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS), an association of physicians dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of spine pain, responded with the following statement on their website’s home page: “ISIS feels that the alert was misleading in its message regarding the safety of epidural steroid injections and contained inaccuracies regarding the effectiveness of this procedure.”
DEA on one side and FDA on the other… who is in the middle – THE CHRONIC PAIN PT !
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I have them and they help me. If I didn’t have them I don’t know what I’d do.
I’ve had these off and on over 30 yrs and they are “just now” announcing this? They help!!