When I saw Dr. Dowdle for a trigger thumb, he gave me a cortisone injection in the wrong place! I tried to tell him he had numbed my palm instead of the base of my thumb, and as I was talking, he jabbed me anyway. It hurt so much I involuntarily flinched and grabbed my hand away, but he kept injecting me anyway. My middle finger went numb instead of my thumb. When I told him, he said that was normal and not to worry. Needless to say, the injection did nothing for my thumb. Later, when I went to a different doctor, she gave me the injection in the right place and my thumb went numb like it's supposed to from the lidocaine. The second doctor told me it usually takes two injections for the trigger thumb to heal but because I had technically already been injected once, I could only get one more injection. Needless to say, I still have my trigger thumb, although it is a little less painful. Dr. Dowdle wasted an injection and tried to tell me everything was fine when it wasn't. read more