CORTISONE SHOTS—BENEFITS & RISKS In my post last week, I discussed free or low-cost therapies to relieve pain: Pain Control Made Cheap. This week I’m adding another—cortisone shots. I finally resorted to this therapy because none of the others were alleviating the pain I had in my left hip when I got out of bed in the morning and especially when jogging. I went to my doctor who, after asking a few questions, determined I had bursitis in that hip and recommended a cortisone injection. She told me that she routinely gives cortisone shots to her patients with back pain,...