5 weeks or 5 days

The original prognosis with the steroid injection that I was given was that I could expect to be inflammation free for about 5 weeks. This was great news and should have kept me happy until I could get to see the NHS rheumatologist. Now 10 days later I can definitely feel inflammation coming back. Today it's a stiff back and a sore knee with a little bit of shoulder pain as well. It's quite deflating when reality is so far from what expectations you were given. It's back on the pills and back to grinning and bearing it.