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Originally Posted by countblessings
I'm on a high dose steroid script....60mg...with a decreasing dose, last time they put me on 40 to start, I ended up with horrible headaches by day 7... wondering if anyone else has ideas on that?
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Hello there, and welcome!!
My PM Dr. had me try steroids (she thought it would help with the swelling... I am not sure if it did), and I did that for 1 1/2 weeks. It was a one-time thing though (she does not want to do them again, she just wanted to try them and see if they helped with RSD symptoms).
Around the same time I started the steroids I started having migraine headaches. My Dr. thought that the steroids could be adding to them, so she had me wean off of them.
My migraines continued after the steroids stopped, so I don't think they caused the headaches. What has caused the headaches in my case is RSD in my jaw/ face. With the jaw pain the migraines started hmm... 3 days later.
My Dr. did mention that the steroids can cause headaches in some cases.
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Steroids cause Headaches
Steroids cause headaches because they alter your endocrine system because of the imbalance of your hormones. To treat these, Advil, Tylenol, Aleve, or any headache medicine will do. I'm not going to spend long talking about it; you've seen a thousand of these commercials on TV.
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see:
http://www.teenbodybuilding.com/mclane20.htm
Is your Dr. using steroids a lot with you? You might want to look into long term use of them. I am listing some sites I have found (note that two are teen sites, btw!):
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_.../steroids.html
http://www.coolnurse.com/steroids.htm
http://arthritis.about.com/cs/steroi...steroids_2.htm
http://arthritis.about.com/od/steroi...s_Warnings.htm
I hope your day is going well!
Keep counting those blessings!