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Hello everyone,
For those of you who have had hospital stays, did you find that you were really weak when you got out? I was in the hospital over a a month ago for a week and didn't experience this. When I got home I had almost normal energy. But I just got out for the second time last week. I stayed a week and a half this time. I was pretty much in bed all the time except for getting up to go to the bathroom and sometimes pacing the room because of the high dosages of prednisone. BTW, I'm taking 60 mg pred and just started Cellcept plus a bunch of other meds, mostly for blood pressure
But I've been out of the hospital now for 5 days and I am still having trouble sometimes getting out of a chair or getting up off a stool. Stairs are really difficult, too. It's like my legs don't want to work. I took a tumble the other day because I raised my leg to take a step and it collapsed. Yet, I can take a half mile walk with my husband, including slight hills. Have my legs atrophied or do you think it's my body's weakness from the flare? I know my red blood cell count is really low, but my other levels were okay when I left the hospital. Thankfully I'm seeing my rheumie tomorrow morning. Thank God for elevators..:lol:
For those of you who have had hospital stays, did you find that you were really weak when you got out? I was in the hospital over a a month ago for a week and didn't experience this. When I got home I had almost normal energy. But I just got out for the second time last week. I stayed a week and a half this time. I was pretty much in bed all the time except for getting up to go to the bathroom and sometimes pacing the room because of the high dosages of prednisone. BTW, I'm taking 60 mg pred and just started Cellcept plus a bunch of other meds, mostly for blood pressure
But I've been out of the hospital now for 5 days and I am still having trouble sometimes getting out of a chair or getting up off a stool. Stairs are really difficult, too. It's like my legs don't want to work. I took a tumble the other day because I raised my leg to take a step and it collapsed. Yet, I can take a half mile walk with my husband, including slight hills. Have my legs atrophied or do you think it's my body's weakness from the flare? I know my red blood cell count is really low, but my other levels were okay when I left the hospital. Thankfully I'm seeing my rheumie tomorrow morning. Thank God for elevators..:lol: