prednisone

[bushwickbill]

I must say, sucks ass. Been on it for 10 days now. Ive been breaking out in hives like crazy after I eat, 4 times this week, docotors say its some food intollerance, not an allergy. Any way this shit makes me a fucking basket case. Like nuttier than a pb and j. Anyway i guess it just maxes out your adrenialin glands, im so worn out and just done with this shit. Oh well Im tapering off now and doc gave me some ambien.

 

[cannabineer]

Be very very careful. I know two people who were kicked into bipolar (which stayed) by a course of pred. cn

 

[tumorhead]

lol I was on 100mg for the first 3 days then 60mg for 6 weeks and am still tapering off of it...just dropped from 20mg to 10mg the other day, then to 5mg and then off for good.

Feel like a crackhead after a 6 weeks @ 60mg going to bed at midnight and wide awake at 4am.

Feel like shit coming off it, you end up making up for the constant high by being extremely fatigued for several days each time you drop the dose.

 

[bushwickbill]

uhg, I can see how... I just hope once i'm off im back to normal. I seriously have never felt so not in control of my emotions. I've broke down so many times and I'm lucky I'm married and have a wife who is is a nurse and is carring. Ive even had to leave work and I just do software dev.

 

[tumorhead]

uhg, I can see how... I just hope once i'm off im back to normal. I seriously have never felt so not in control of my emotions. I've broke down so many times and I'm lucky I'm married and have a wife who is is a nurse and is carring. Ive even had to leave work and I just do software dev.

Sounds a lot like me. I was making video games for android OS, got some crazy inflammation in my face eating my nerves and haven't been able to read documentation for 3~ months.

Then the nerve pain meds take away your creativity. And the inflammation was destroying my eye nerve so it hurts to move it even though it can see clearly.

 

[hotrodharley]

Sounds a lot like me. I was making video games for android OS, got some crazy inflammation in my face eating my nerves and haven't been able to read documentation for 3~ months.

Then the nerve pain meds take away your creativity. And the inflammation was destroying my eye nerve so it hurts to move it even though it can see clearly.

Have you considered seeing an acupuncturist to see if they can help?

 

[bushwickbill]

Have you considered seeing an acupuncturist to see if they can help?

My dad asked me this today. Im a toatal skeptic but sure I'll try it and at this point why not.

 

[hotrodharley]

My dad asked me this today. Im a toatal skeptic but sure I'll try it and at this point why not.

I'm not a skeptic in the least about it. Working in medicine since the late 70's and have seen it work way too many times to be a doubter. Be sure to see certified and trained acupuncturists. It's worked for me and you should investigate whether it will help you. A professional acupuncturist will not perform acupuncture if they do not think it will work in a given case.

 

[tumorhead]

I'm not a skeptic in the least about it. Working in medicine since the late 70's and have seen it work way too many times to be a doubter. Be sure to see certified and trained acupuncturists. It's worked for me and you should investigate whether it will help you. A professional acupuncturist will not perform acupuncture if they do not think it will work in a given case.

I might check it out for some of the surface level pain but am skeptical about whether it'll work on the source which is deep in the face just left of the pituitary gland in my case, which causes a variety of painful problems as a side effect such as "trigeminal neuralgia" among other things.

I'd be curious though, like I have this really terrible problem I just finally found a drug that works, with these "spasms" all across the left side of the face. After 10+ months of agony I finally found a neurologist that gave me "trileptal" an anti-seizure medicine that almost completely removed the spasms. I had to stop taking nortriptyline because it interacts very badly with smoking cannabis....which was really weird....

 

[hotrodharley]

I've watched live brain surgery on closed circuit TV with the patient awake (not uncommon depending on what we are performing to check for function as the case progresses) but with all pain control by acupuncture only. Brain surgery.

I ain't letting them do brain surgery on me using it but saying you might seriously be open minded until proven it wouldn't work in your specific case. Like with all medicine and procedures consider a second opinion if not totally comfortable with what you are told.

http://www.nccaom.org/find-a-nccaom-certified-practitioner

Each US state has laws regulating the practice of acupuncture with these requirements including real education and training. That link is just to give you a place to start finding one. It is a professional organization like the AMA, not a licensing body.

 

[MrEDuck]

Oral steroids suck. I've been on em recently a lot because I'm not risking injections until the fungal meningitis issue has been sorted out. Hope you've found somethign interesting to occupy you during the insomnia.

 

[bushwickbill]

Oral steroids suck. I've been on em recently a lot because I'm not risking injections until the fungal meningitis issue has been sorted out. Hope you've found somethign interesting to occupy you during the insomnia.

Ha yeah actually I did. An old best of Sci-fi put together by Issac Asimov in 1942, lots of cool short stories. But yeah tomorrow is my last dose, and pretty excited, been 12 long days with not much sleep.

 

[MrEDuck]

I usually pass out from exhaustion after the 3rd or 4th day. I also try to take them first thing in the morning.
Asimov put together a bunch of good compilations. Not sure if I ever read anything from that one though.