Cutting Back on Prednisone
Sep 26, 2008I had my doctors appointment last week - the day after our Ike Wind Storm here in Dayton… Crazy days.
Anyway, Dr wants to have me to have another CT scan to see what’s going on with the absess I had. If it’s still there, she’ll put me back on antibiotics. Plush I am to back down off the prednisone, coming down 5 mg a week. I started at 40 and dropped to 30 the week before I went to the appointment. So, I’m (rather quickly, I think) coming off the prednisone and I worry it’s too fast.
She (Dr) said we have to show what we are doing isn’t working before we can move forward to something else. It didn’t dawn on me until a few days later (because of the lack of electricity and my mind was certainly on other things) that she is most surely expecting me to get “sick” again so we can prove to insurance we need to move on to Remicaide or something else.
I’m feeling pretty bummed about that - the thought of feeling sick again.. Right about the time the holidays are getting good, I expect to be dealing with more pain. Yeah, sounds fun. But I guess we do what we need to in order to get better.
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