Did anyone have Cortizone in knees before WLS?

I was told that it is not good for Diabetics to have before WLS.....My right knee is bone on bone and I use a walker.....Im still going to work and its painful. I need to keep going because Im about 2months away from having WLS.....I work in Ortho Dept. at work....I plan on seeing someone tomarrow.....Does it mess up Labs? Thanks Cindi

I don't know about the cortizone, but I did have a series of injections of replacement synovial fluid in my right knee just before my WLS. The medication is sold under several names, Synvisc being one. It did WONDERFUL things for me, and I was told that as long as my last shot had been at least 2 weeks prior to surgery things would be fine. And just as an aside---what form of WLS are you having? I ask since you're diabetic, and 98+% of Type II diabetics who have the DS (duodenal switch) experience a 100% remission of symptoms, many within days after surgery. It's so effective in treating diabetes that surgeons in Europe have been doing the intestinal portion of the Ds even on non-obese patients for over ten years now! And since the DS leaves the patient with a fully-functional stomach (rather than a pouch and a stoma), taking arthritis meds like NSAIDs is still okay.

I am not diabetic, but my mom is and anytime she has to have cortizone or oral predinizone, it messes up her blood sugars very bad. She is normally diet controlled now, not insulin dependant, but with prednisone, her blood sugars roller coaster from 500 to 37 (twice she hit that low and I thought we were going to lose her!) The Synvisc injections are great, if you are not allergic to eggs or poultry. They are made from rooster combs, no kidding! LOL They also last much longer than the cortizone IMO. The bad part is you have to have a series of 3 shots, each one week apart and it can take a few weeks to kick in where as the coritzone works the same day or the next, for me anyway. Steroids in any form will leach calcium from your bones so be aware of that fact and I think they also cause healing to take longer. Important for diabetics. HTH! Elizabeth

Cindi I have had knee problems for about 5 years now and have taken cortizone shots in the knee several times. It does tend to elevate your blood sugar, so if you are on insulin your have to adjust your doseage. The higher blood sugars do not late very long, a week at the most. I had WLS in Nov 05 and have lost 138 lbs so far. Before WLS I was wheel chair bound for 4 years. After about a month after WLS I was able to get up and walk. I found the more I walked and exercised the worse my knee got. It was just bone on bone. So on May 10th of this year I had my left knee replaced. Even though I still have some pain from the surgery, I am able to walk and exercise so much easier. Hopefully you will notice a big difference in your knee after WLS and the pounds start coming off. Dan Kokomo, IN