I had the same steroid injection for tonsillitis this past Januar...

I hate to tell you this, but as a person who works in the medical field and as a patient this has happened to, it fills back in, it takes a while but it will and you will never know it was ever there.

This could happen with any injection you get. I have worked in the medical field for 22 years and have had several injections and have had an indention happen at an injection site. It fills back up eventually. No big deal. Everything has side effects. Doctors make decisions based upon what they hear from the patient. "I don't have time to be sick, I want something that will get me better fast, I am a terrible pill taker. I can't swallow pills, etc." The older a person gets the more traumatic surgery becomes, especially a tonsillectomy. A surgery that takes a young child a couple of days to a week to recouperate from takes adults weeks and is a horrible pain which causes you to take pills and other medicines that have terrible side effects. So the doctor takes in all the information he knows about each individual and makes the choice that he thinks is the best. I personally hate steroids but when I wake up with a terrible allergic reaction to something that I have come into contact with the night before and have inflammation in every joint in my body as well as external swelling, the pills don't work fast enough for me when I feel that bad, I want a shot. The steroids make me not sleep and they make me very irritable and cranky but controllable. When I feel as bad as I did when I got my last steroid I was irritable and cranky to the point that no one that I was related to wanted to be around me and that just isn't me. Those flares last weeks and take weeks out of my life to start to feeling better. Weeks I don't have to be down and away from work, especially in this economy. So the next time you are offered the choice of a steroid shot, (or any type of injection) or something that you have to take orally for 3 days - 2 weeks (with terrible gastric and colon side effects) that will take longer to see the results, think it over, even surgery will have a long time to recover and has terrible pain as well as more medication. Everyone has a choice but in the long run a little indention in the buttocks isn't such an awful side effect when you compare it to what your other options side effects could be.

I too had an injection of Kenalog, and to my dismay, have inherited an indention that inflames from time to time. My hips do not match anymore because of this.I wished I had known.I would not have done it.It isn't the worst thing, but when one side is bigger than the other, it makes you slightly annoyed.I do hope that this is only temporary as the other post says.I have never been one to be vain, but a little knowledge about it (that goes for anything)beforehand would have been great.

I have a permanent scar from the polio vaccine that I received as a child. I think we should start a class-action law suite to the makers of that vaccine. because it would have been far better to have polio than vaccinated against it. YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!! A dimple in you butt? Give me a break! Get over yourself. Old age and gravity are going to do a lot more to your body than a little dimple. Just wait you'll seen. Don't forget vanity is a sin, my friend.