Med Alert: tapering to 15mg

Tapering again to 15mg... Will be here for three weeks. 15mg every other day.

Tapering hasn't been too fun. Very achy: knees hurt, pads of my feet are puffy, hands and face are swollen, wrists feel jam and just in bit cranky in general but dealing! Trying to stay focused and be motivated. Sometimes I just want to sleep all day---as if that could even happen.

Well, I'm getting off the drug-yuck! Just gotta do it!

Med Alert: 13 week Prednisone taper

I am 4 weeks into a 13 week Prednisone taper program, hoping to get me off the immune suppressing steroid I've nick named "drug-yuck". Though I've actually been tapering for 2 months already (to get the alternating days to 0mg).

I am currently at 20mg every other day. So 20mg yesterday, 0mg today, 20mg tomorrow. Yesterday was my first 20mg day from 25mg, after being at 30mg daily just a mere 8 weeks ago (tapering every two weeks.) It's been a quick tapering, yet I know the hardest part is ahead. Going lower.

Today I felt tired, beat, achy. My soles feel puffy, my arches like they are flattening. My kidneys feel kicked and hamstrings pulled.

I laid in bed as my child (who was up at night with the flu) took a nap. I stayed there for ten minutes, relishing in my pity party of arches and pains. Then, I said "f it, I'm going running!!! My arches aren't really flattening!"

Sometimes, you just have to kick your own butt!