If I agree to roids I always ask that they run them SLOW! I ask for at least 2 hours as it makes me incredibly nauseous and I dont want to deal with that. I get phelebitis really easily and pushing stuff faster makes it more likely that will happen.

You MUST be your own advocate and when you sit in the chair say "ok, let me tell you how we are going to sing this song" and if they are not willing to follow what YOUR needs are. GET UP! call your neuro and ask him to write special orders on its delivery. NO ONE should have to go what you went thru.

Warm compresses will help. Elevation will help. Resting the arm will help. squeezing a tennis ball will help. wiggling your fingers will help. NO heavy lifting with that arm for a week or so. The tissues are angry. Be on the look out for red streaks away from the IV site. The IV site may become hard, sore and tender. it may take a week or 10 days but with time it should get better.

please NEVER sit with a burning , hurting, aching IV line. it could mean it pulled out of the vein and is squirting into the surrounding tissues, and not into the vein. I would call the patient advocate and report this nurse for what she did and ask that she be RE TRAINED so that no one else has to go thru it like you did. Being careless at the end of a shift is dangerous. people have had to have limbs amputated because of caustic meds that were hung improperly or the IV pulled out and the nurse wasnt looking. You cant imagine how much they were panicked behind the scenes. They used to give Vistril IV till a woman lost her arm!

Im happy you are safe and home. rest up.