Dosing while laid up
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As many of you know, I've broken my left ankle, sprained my right ankle and bruised my rib cage on my left side when I fell getting out of my car (just call me grace) I have lots of impressive bruising too. I've also caught a chest cold, I've had diarrhea for a week and developed a rash on my back while I was staying at the rehab facility. So I'm one big mess.
So my question is how should I dose my prednisone? In the hospital I was suppose to get 12 mg but found out on day 3 they were only giving me 5 mg! So now that I'm home and deciding my own dosage should I stick to 12 mg, or bump it up because of the stress I'm in? I know not to try reducing right now and I've not been experiencing and extra pain so 12 mg is still good.
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BettyE amkoffee
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First, commiserations. What have you done to deserve this? No, I know, it doesn't work like that.
I'm usually pretty careful of recommending anything in the dose department and this is just my experience.
When I reacted spectacularly to an intolerance/reaction to penicillin my pred. was bumped up to 20 from 8 on hospital instructions for 7 days and then straight back to 8 so obviously they considered the big jump and immediate return to lower dose was safe. ( I asked!! ). Others will have a more knowledgeable view but I should think you could up it a bit rather than wait for reaction to the"deprived" three days on 5.
Did they offer any explanation or was it just the usual lack of communication?.
Must be lovely to be home. Best wishes.
EileenH amkoffee
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Honestly - what a disgusting way to manage patients!!! No chance of a complaint I suppose though?
Glad you are home - and hope you are managing OK.
Anhaga amkoffee
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You're home again! Yay!
ida40908 amkoffee
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for the rest I would stick with the lowest dose that give you sufficient pain relieve, so if it is 12 go for 12 but if you can manage a lower dose go for that!
Bein charge of yr own body and follow what yr heart tells you , all the very best. Ida.
amkoffee
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Thank you all for replying. I think based on what everyone here is saying and my own thoughts that I'm going to stick with the 12 mg that I'm currently taking. I do not think I'm going to try reducing at this time I think that would just be asking for trouble. And it's for 8 weeks which actually in terms of the slow reduction schedule is not a huge reduction amount.
I am home and God help me I'm glad I am. I really thought I was going to die in that facility. They botched up so much with my medication and with the way they treated me or did not treat me. And the disappointment really was that everybody said what a great facility it was. I do plan on reporting them to the health department. I do not want anyone else to go through what I did. I think there's something sick about that building.
Also to answer your question about it being shingles I'm confident that it is not shingles. I had shingles when I was in 3rd grade and I remember how painful it was. This is not at all painful and it's just an incessant itching. My husband has been rubbing some cortisone medicine on my back and the itching has gotten a lot better. I will be seeing my GP on Wednesday and I'm hoping by then that the rash will have shown some improvement by then.