This flare is really kicking my backside. I feel like I got hit by a bus, or maybe even something bigger. I started a pred. taper pack 9 days ago, toomorrow will be the first day down to 10 mg and will stay there. But I don't think it's helping at all. If anything maybe it's making things worse.
I've run a fever, up to 100.something and back to just above normal and back up since night before last. I ache all over, but don't hurt anyplace specific. No symptoms but misery. I can't sleep and can't stay awake. My thermostat is totally broken. I'm shivering and then burning up.
And on top of it all, I've got pred cravings for ..... just about everything. Only problem is that actually eating anything other than white bread makes me nauseated.
Yes, I'll call my doctor Tuesday morning (they don't come in on Memorial Day and I hate to make them touchy by calling on a day off). But until then I'm just sort of trying to stay out of everybody else's way in the house and pretend I don't feel as sick as I do.
I'm open to suggestions. I'm swilling cool water and sleeping with a cool cloth on my head. I'm taking NSAIDs for aches and fever. Can't really think right now, but I feel the fever starting back up.
Oh yeah, I have screaming reflux for the first time since.... oh, that's right, for the first time since I went off pred around 8-9 months ago.
I hesitate to call my doctor when I don't know what to ask for or to complain of. "I feel like I was hit by a bus" doesn't really work with him. He's literal. I'm just too sick not to call if I still feel like this Tuesday.
Thanks for listening to the whine,
Sunny
I've run a fever, up to 100.something and back to just above normal and back up since night before last. I ache all over, but don't hurt anyplace specific. No symptoms but misery. I can't sleep and can't stay awake. My thermostat is totally broken. I'm shivering and then burning up.
And on top of it all, I've got pred cravings for ..... just about everything. Only problem is that actually eating anything other than white bread makes me nauseated.
Yes, I'll call my doctor Tuesday morning (they don't come in on Memorial Day and I hate to make them touchy by calling on a day off). But until then I'm just sort of trying to stay out of everybody else's way in the house and pretend I don't feel as sick as I do.
I'm open to suggestions. I'm swilling cool water and sleeping with a cool cloth on my head. I'm taking NSAIDs for aches and fever. Can't really think right now, but I feel the fever starting back up.
Oh yeah, I have screaming reflux for the first time since.... oh, that's right, for the first time since I went off pred around 8-9 months ago.
I hesitate to call my doctor when I don't know what to ask for or to complain of. "I feel like I was hit by a bus" doesn't really work with him. He's literal. I'm just too sick not to call if I still feel like this Tuesday.
Thanks for listening to the whine,
Sunny