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Originally Posted by Erin524
I was feeling better. Starting to feel all spinny again. I'm happy that it left me alone for awhile today before the world started moving me again.
Just wish it would have left me alone for good. I hate vertigo!
I still dont know if I'm going to call the neuro tomorrow for the steroids. I might actually try to wait over the weekend.
I really dont want to have to deal with all the stupid side effects of the steroids. Last year when I did steroids the first time, I absolutely LOVED the way I felt, no numbness, vision improved, I felt GREAT, but then all the side effects started to kick in, and then the steroids wore off and I felt like crap.
So, while I'd love to have my body feel somewhat normal for a short while, I really dont want to have to deal with the side effects. If I call him tomorrow, I think I'll ask him if it will make my vision improve, if it'll help the vision and the vertigo, I might just do it, but I think I have to get past the fear of the side effects. (peeing every 3 minutes does not sound like fun. And my dad was going to tie me down last year because I was bouncing off the walls from the steroids)
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I can see why you want to wait until the weekend goes by -- if you feel like you can deal with the MS crud. I'm just afraid you are in a flare up. I will tell you that I've done IV steroids 2x. The first time I had a long prednisone taper and it was absolutely horrible. Awful awful side effects. And then I had problems with fatigue, headache, abdominal cramps when the oral ended so they thought I was having adrenal insufficiency and put me back on 10 mg. so I would taper down from that. UGH. So the tapering took a month or more if I remember correctly. The second time after the IV I did no taper at all and it was SO much better--just unbelievably better. The neuro I spoke to today said that some people handle no taper more easily and have way more problems with the oral prednisone after the IV ends. I will tell you that when I did the no taper I did have about a week of feeling pretty funky (tired, felt like a truck ran over me) -- but I bounced back pretty quickly. So you might ask your neuro about an IV course with no taper. I can't even begin to tell you how much better it was and I will never do an oral taper of steroids after an IV again.