Re: Prednisone, Cortisone and stuff!

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Barb

Thanks for the sound advice.

Prednisone is masking or reducing the pain temporarily. That is without a doubt.

I put in a call from my doctor today. He offered two option the ER or an

appointment the next day (with in 24 hours). I took the appointment option.

He is a highly regarded internist. He serves may doctors in the area and teaches

on the faculty of the Washington University Medical School. Pretty hard act to

follow. Based on his advice, I elected to see him at noon. He plans to do

blood, urine, etc.

A big note - my hives are very, very bad right now. My eyes are swollen, etc.

The pain seems to localize itself in the joint area - connective areas of major

bones - spine to pelvis, pelvic joint to hip, knees and ankles. Really makes me

wonder - is this a new manifestation of the whole CU / angio. thing? God

forbid! This hurts like @#$!#!and doesn't stop with major pain medication. It

only subsides when the swelling is reduced via NSAID or Prednisone.

Keep you all posted.

What a trip.

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V

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~Phil~

Prednisone, Cortisone and stuff!

Hi Phil! Happy Thanksgiving! First of all I want to say I think your wife is

one lucky lady! Any man who would brag about their wife the way you did earns

lots of brownie points in my books. Sorry you had such a problem with your back

while in Ohio. It's funny, after hearing you were in Ohio it feels like you were

so close to my home! Do you think we should try to arrange some sort of reunion

of all the members? I almost think it would be too overwhelming but what a lot

of fun!

Just a word of warning! I appreciate that the Prednisone helped for the time

being with your back but please be careful that it isn't just masking the pain.

Almost sounds like you may have pinched your ciatic nerve (I'm pouring through

my medical dictionary for the correct spelling - no luck - pronounced

sigh-at-ic).

(Funny I tried to send this and my spell check did get the proper spelling. It

is sciatic!) I remember when my common-law husband and I first met he had

pinched that nerve moving a heavy object and it was agony just watching him. We

would be walking through a mall and he would suddenly get these shooting pains

down his leg and would have to race to the car and put the back seat down to

spread out to relieve the pain. Unfortunately he is a more typical male that

doesn't seek medical attention and he agonized with the pain for several months

before it disappeared.

Sounds like your outlaw (inlaw) may have had a cortisone injection for his

problem. Again, a word of caution! Cortisone does make an injury feel wonderful

but it masks what the problem is. You think it is OK and continue on as if

nothing is wrong but in fact the injury is still there.

I know I fractured my tailbone on a water slide (in the States) and was in

unbelievable agony (this was long before CU). My doctor gave me these options.

Cut off my tailbone (although he didn't recommend it and I didn't like the

sound of it); have a shot of cortisone ( he didn't recommend it and I didn't

like the sound of it) or live with the pain and it would eventially go away! I

took Door number 3 because the other two didn't sound appealing. I was at least

6 months popping ASA and sitting on pillows. Sitting down and getting up just

about killed me as it felt like my back end was going to fall off! The one thing

it didn't hurt to do was ....? and ....walk! It eventually settled down but at

the time it was the only thing I had to deal with. If I had to fight CU I might

have chosen different options.

Please get this checked out with your Dr. before doing anything else!

Take care and hope things improve for you!

Barb

May the wind be always at your back.

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