Guest guest Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Dear Sunita, May I suggest you don't touch the steroid dose. If they are controlling inflammation in the brain and you reduce the dose there is a possibility that you may induce epileptic fits or other equally serious effects depending on where the tumour/tumours are. The way to approach this is to support the patient in ways less directly incolved with the steroids. Diet, lifestyle, herbs as might be appropriate then, if the body responds it may be possible for the steroid dose to be reduced, under medical supervision. This can and does happen but we should not get involed in reduction of such serious medication where the risk of causing worse problems is high. There is a lot you can do without going down that road and much safer for the patient. Steroid reduction in any case has to be slow, monitored and may not necessarily correlate to symptoms. Hope that helps, Allshorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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