day 3 of roids done but it didn't go well at all. Different nurse started it and turns out she set pump to run twice as fast. It burned - a -lot then all my muscles started aching. Moved up from hand/fingers to shoulder and was getting pretty bad when I finally called the nurse to help me. (by now we have the night shift).

She swore out loud, stopped the fluid and checked my arm and pulse. Skin ice cold, painful & stiff muscles, burning pain and reddish skin. Whole hand and arm was weak as a limp dishrag- practically hung off to the side of me. Technically I could move it, but with great difficulty.

She immediately called the pharmacist, as she was taught in scholl it had to be diluted. Also said I couldn't tolerate the drug that fast; especially third day in a row in the right arm. Pharmacist said the solumedrol is causitc and should have been diluted with more volume and run at 2 hours (not 45 min-1hour straight like day nurse did). This was compounded by needing to decrease my liquids due the elctrolyte issue.

They flushed veins several times with saline, applied heated blanket, elevated my arm and kept checking my skin, capillary refill and asking me how are you doing. She also called my neuro to advise him.

Skin went back to normal color and warmed (but was still colder than left). I felt it easing up so I went home. Never got bad enough at night to call doc

I finally awoke to an improvement over last night but still aches (not pain- pain; more like morning after you worked out the first time in a long time). Pretty weak and needs a lot of breaks to re-coupe.

Sigh... guess I have to go to left arm (we were trying to avoid using it if possible). Cant use my right crutch at all, cant push w/c without going in circles (LOL) so am being fairly immobile. I AM NOT enjoying this wee setback.

Any tips? thanks