Doctors Get Complications Too. A Personal Lesson Learned from a Steroid Injection Incident

I wanted to share with you a recent procedure I had for a small bump, which doctors think is calcinosis, a small calcium deposition that can occur in the skin. I had it for over a year and recently saw a very well-trained plastic surgeon at Mass General Hospital. He suggested we either cut it out or inject something called Kenalog, a steroid injection, to shrink it. In this case, the surgeon used a mix of 20/40. The outcome was unexpected and taught me valuable lessons about the importance of caution and conservative dosing in dermatological treatments.