steroid shots can help fibro pain for several reasons: 1. they reduce pain in the inflamed areas from conditions other than fibro thus one feels better "overall. " 2. they calm down these inflamed areas thus reducing the "signals" that were aggravating the fibro in the immediate areas and even the overall body; so indirectly the steroids calmed the fibro. 3. they may directly calm down the fibro flare-up perhaps by combined analgesic anti-inflammatory and adrenal mechanisms involving fm. .
how do steroid shots help with fibromyalgia pain?