My neuro gave me a bottle with 70 pills. Think they're 10mg apiece. You start out with taking six pills a day for the first three days...then five pills for the next three days, four pills a day for the next 3 days...and so on till you get down to just one pill a day. (you end up with extras left over, since the neuro just over prescribes just a teeny bit so he doesnt have to do any math)

Only reason I went with the oral pred is because I didnt feel like giving up 3 or 4 days of my life, sitting in an outpatient infusion center reading my Kindle or playing on my netbook while a bag of fluid slowly dripped into my arm...plus, the IVSM is expensive!

A bottle of oral pred was a little bit under $6 at Walgreens. Tastes nasty, and I have to sit and gather up the courage to gag the pills down with a huge bottle of water. But, it's cheap and doesnt require me having to leave that annoying IV port in my arm for three or four days. (I only have one decent vein for IV's that's easily accessible)

I hate the steroids, but I hate the feeling of the numbness and feeling like it's screwing with my ability to walk. It triggers my claustrophobia for some reason.

I'm trying to not eat the house down while on these things. I think I was well behaved yesterday when I had a fruity yogurt dish at a local restaurant for my breakfast, and then only having half of a patty melt and some fruit for dinner at another restaurant.

This morning I stole one of my sister's yogurts to eat with my steroids, and I just splurged and had some brownies my aunt made for me. I'm going to try to not hit the brownies again till tomorrow (hopefully they'll be drier and chewier then...I hate gooey brownies) I'm going to send my dad out for some grapes tonight...and maybe some carrots. (I think I might need the fiber from that, plus it's probably better than having him pick up the Doritos that I'm dying for right now.)

Last time I had steroids, I made sure that I had one really tasty, bad-for-me junk food, so that I could satisfy that particular craving, but made sure that all the other options were halfway healthy.

I just hope I'm not stuck with this particular sensation. I would hate to go thru life being tortured like this. Think I'd rather be waterboarded.