Weird sensations
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Just been out to do a bit of shopping called for a drink, had camomile tea and the most funny sesation in my face atop of my nose weird, across forehead, and my eyes are itching something awful, glad to get home.
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Oregonjohn-UK margaret22251
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EileenH margaret22251
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I ride into the city center, using my bus pass, wander around the mall and end up at the top tier watching the world go by with my cup of coffee. It's my way of (cheaply!!) getting out, incorporating some exercise, and of course have a nice drink. Don't usually buy anything else and then take the bus back.
margaret22251 EileenH
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https://patient.info/forums/discuss/pmr-gca-and-other-website-addresses-35316
margaret22251 EileenH
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EileenH margaret22251
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"Our approach to the diagnosis and treatment of polymyalgia and giant cell arteritis by Quick and Kirwan" but you could also find it by googling that title.
In this paper they keep patients at 15mg for 6 weeks and then 12.5mg for 6 weeks and then you stay at 10mg for a year. If you have decided to use that one you shouldn't need to worry about what you are doing for 6 weeks at a time.
Margaret - you really must stop obsessing about the reduction and getting panicked at everything. Until you do that you won't understand what we are suggesting to you. At the moment you are picking up on comments made by and to everybody - and getting yourself confused.
Everybody is different, everybody is at a different stage of reduction and everybody has different needs. If we are having a discussion about reducing with someone who is at 8mgs and struggling with getting to 7.5mg it is very different from someone switching from 15 to 12.5. Above 10mg there are different problems to those below 10mg.
It might be an idea to talk to your doctor about the anxiety - are you always so nervous and agitated or did it just start when you were put on the pred?
Get a calendar or diary and write your dose down - maybe even get the practice nurse to help you if she will. Then sit back and concentrate on YOU and YOUR reduction problems. Carol and others have made several suggestions for you to relax - and concentrating on that will help you a lot I think.
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