Yes. 1/2 a 25mg tablet used at once has been known to provide some relief from the inflammation. Mind you I only need some relief. Not expecting total movement back but some comfort would be nice.
I've read it several times but please explain....
Shhhh. If you can manage to keep a few, they are a great addition to a travel First aid kitsteroi_s, how I love you!
How do they work so quickly?
Pretty much diagnostic of PMR.steroi_s, how I love you!
How do they work so quickly?
Had usual rhuemy blood tests done early this morning, not due until June but required because of this issue. Decided to wait taking the prednisone until after they were done so as to get accurate Inflammatory markers. Immediately I'd done them I scoffed some food and down they went.
Ive been told to taper down after a week. I see I have four repeats each of 100. Do you think, without offering medical advice here
that I'll be taking them as a maintenance for a while then? And what is the limit of autoimmune issues someone can have. This will be my fourth
You know what keeps me awake at nights?steroi_s, how I love you!
How do they work so quickly?
100 in the first script and four repeats but think depending on what drron might think and my own search on PMr I'll be on them for a while.Shhhh. If you can manage to keep a few, they are a great addition to a travel First aid kit
steroi_s can keep you awake. But I agree, the pain relief if through inflammation is immense. Pain killers and NSAID did diddly squat. I was eating through Panadol uselessly. Somehow I knew that the physio hubby was suggesting wasn't going to do anything but seemed compelled to reach out to my rheumapologist. I dont think I've contacted her out of appointment for 6 years so broke my golden rule and knew it was what I had to do. She is brilliant. She's on the Australian Rhuematology Board. Not just excellent skills but a lovely person as well. We have great chats.
It means your ESR/CRP will need to be monitored.Ive been told to taper down after a week. I see I have four repeats each of 100. Do you think, without offering medical advice here
I have kept some in case my very painful gout returns while on holiday. I’d check but I might take a couple in case of severe other inflammation as well.100 in the first script and four repeats but think depending on what drron might think and my own search on PMr I'll be on them for a while.
How do you consider you might use them? All new world to me. All I know is moon face and roid anger.
Just that I took them! Silly I know.
They (academics and professors) say the onset of action of steroi_s is not quick. Earliest is 3 hours, can also be a day or 3. But if given for correct reasons, the antiinflammatory effect is dramatic as @drron said
It was around 6 hours when I realised I could bend down but I have felt better in the afternoons anyway when things seemed to unstick themselves. But still limb limitations in arms and legs. I'd say to hubby in the evening, I'm better, then overnight I couldnt move properly again, and would get pain shoots in my leg so wasn't sleeping much and haven't been for a few weeks. Then in the morning it was rinse and repeat. I'd finally after a few hours get a bit more movement but if I sat down it would start over again. As for sitting in the car. Getting in was a slow process and my right leg I'd have to lift it in with my arm as moving the leg muscle caused so much pain. So passive movement seemed manageable, but active movement (using the actual muscles) was torture. When it came to getting out of the car I'd grit my teeth then almost drop onto the ground (in the higher up car ) then wait for the pain to subside then gradually hobble off. in my little car it was all a matter of waiting For the paid to recede. Getting into and out of bed made me work out how to get onto the bed without bending my leg. Getting dressed? Had to line up the various articles on the floor for lower levels and align them to be put on with minimum effort. Took ages.
I have on going discomfort from a bilateral open hernia operation 9 months ago. Two surgeons have said “we don’t know why this happens or really what causes it”. In my case it just feels just like it is - that I have something sewn up inside me ( the mesh) and it’s irritating the surrounds, esp with exercise.
Sorry to hear, hopefully it will really kick in soon.
Not uncommon.
There are but they more or less work in same way.
Don't need to be even in remote places to stock up.
. I tried to ask for morphine/oxycodone but was immediately denied - . She quaffed a lot of red wine in the meantime.
Hmmm yes. Endone is also in the kit.
So is it confirmed PR - dad had that and he couldn't even comb his hair and one day after steroi_s he was a new man.
Hate it, horrible stuff.
