{"id":104,"date":"2014-11-25T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/01\/17\/cortisone-and-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:52","slug":"httpswww-bphope-combphopeblogcategoryjulie-fast-aspxpage13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/httpswww-bphope-combphopeblogcategoryjulie-fast-aspxpage13\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Magazine Blog:  Are Cortisone Shots Safe for Bipolar Disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortisone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5607\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"cortisone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortisone.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortisone.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortisone-150x79.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: large;\">I&#8217;m on a cortisone awareness crusade! It&#8217;s essential that all people with bipolar disorder and the family, friends and health care professionals who care for those with bipolar disorder understand the facts behind the shots!\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You would not believe the horror stories I&#8217;ve heard from people with bipolar disorder who had cortisone shots. This is also a common theme I hear from my family member and partner coaching clients.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full blown euphoric manic episodes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Agg<\/strong><strong>ressive dysphoric manic episodes that lead to jail. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suicidal depression and hospitalization. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;. one series of shots can cause severe mood swings even if a person has been stable for years.\u00a0 Prednisone for swelling due to a head injury or asthma and the ever present testosterone treatments for &#8216;men over 50&#8217; have the same risks as cortisone shots.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I am so adamant that those with bipolar try everything to treat an injury, <em>before<\/em> they take the risky move of getting a cortisone shot.<\/p>\n<p>Please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bphope.com\/bphopeblog\/post\/Ie28099m-on-a-cortisone-awareness-crusadeaspx.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to go to my BP Magazine blog for the remainder of the newsletter. I wanted to put this on the BP Magazine blog so that everyone can leave comments. I think you will find this information very timely, important and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortisone shot caused depression and hypo mania. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/httpswww-bphope-combphopeblogcategoryjulie-fast-aspxpage13\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}