Pred dosing or dropping it - bump last question for Val

February 21, 2008

Well, I took it a little before 9PM and took 1ml (= to 4mg of HC)

instead of the 1.25ml (= to 5mg of HC) and then my usual 2.1g of

cream. I woke up at 3AM already sweating and unable to get back to

sleep. I usually wake up around 3AM anyway, but just to go the

bathroom and then I go back to sleep until 4 or 5 before I wake up

with the sweating, stomach, and insomnia. I couldn't afford a third

night in a row of 4-5 hours so I ruined the experiment by getting up

and taking 2.5mg of HC and half of a Lunesta to get back to sleep.

Barely made it out of bed or to work and now I'm a zombie and don't

know whether it's the cortisol or the Lunesta although I suspect it's

because of the sleeping pill. I also woke up with a runny nose which I

associate with low cortisol and had not experienced in a while.

I just have no idea how this pred works or what good it is even doing

for me. I guess that the other part of the experiment would be to take

it even later, like between 9:30 and 10PM which is about one hour

before I turn out the light and take no cream to determine whether I

am giving myself too much night-time cortisol and that the sweating

and stomach in the middle of the night isn't because of that? I'll

have to wait until tomorrow or Sat. night so that maybe I can function

tomorrow although no matter how I dose tnite it's a crap shoot whether

I sleep or not. I need to find out from Val whether I can just quit

taking the pred as long as I'm still taking HC or whether I need to

wean. I think that if I'm going to be on pred I just need to be on it

and not trying to combine it with HC.

>

>This sounds like you should only take it an hour before. But isn't

> that how you initially started dosing? With only pred and no HC?

> Then you'll have come full circle and STILL have sleep problems! So

> then you're right, you might just drop it altogether. I'd try playing

> with the time and dose at night before dropping it though, just to

> give it a fair shot. After that, you can say you tried everything.

>

> Barb

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