Background: The word pain is derived from the Greek term poine (“Penalty”).1 Pain is not just a sensory modality but it is an experience. The international association for the study of pain defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage”. Epidural steroids have been used successfully for long time for chronic painsyndrome. The safety of epidural steroids is well established. Based on the above evidences and concepts in this study we used dexamethasone epidurally to study the effects on acute postoperative pain.