Muscle Atrophy?

I have had 4 injections into my right wrist in approximately 2 years time. The last one being in November. They really did help relieve pain and gave me some ability to hold onto my ink pen and actually write a few words without dropping the pen in pain. This last time though I began to notice a divet (sp) like area where the thumb joins my wrist. My Rheumy said it was muscle atrophy due to steriod injections and I will never get the muscle back. Any one else experiencing atrophy after multiple injections over a period of time.
And by the way, PM doc says no more pain relief coming my way from injections. Figures the one thing that did help is now out of my protocol.

I too have noticed divets in my hand and wrist. I had 2 steroid shots in about 4 months time; not from RA. The last one they gave me at the end of Feburary and was even with and ultrasound. I asked my Family Doc about it the other day and she told me the same thing that your doc told you. I fell off of the bed a year ago yesturday and the first Ortho surgeon that I saw told me that there was nothing wrong, even though I was back in his office every other week until last July. I fired him and my family doc got me a different ortho surgeon and he saw the elbow fracture that the radiologist saw, which was why they sent me to the first specialist to begin with. They have narrowed after months of PT, MRI's, lots of pain meds, and so on as DeQuinders and CMC Teniovitis. The first shot was in November of 2007 on the top of the wrist. The second was on the palm side in the CMC thumb joint. Now I too have the divits-and still in pain. I am coming to learn to live with it, but it really does suck that they can not figure something else out. By the way-the divet reason is why I did not let them do steroid shots to begin with; for the fear of the "but what if..."