1 A.M. and cannot sleep, prednisone I suppose and have to take another week off work this makes the 4th week now. An emotional killer for me to miss work feel like I am not taking care of my family. Getting depressed and feel like I am letting a lot of people down, the emotional toll of UC is almost as bad as the physical and sometimes worse. What a frickin roller coaster ride!
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So sorry to hear that you are still so bad that you have to keep missing work. I know how frustrating and depressing that can be, I missed about 12 weeks of work, mostly because it took 7 weeks and 3 visits to the hospital before they diagnosed me properly, and by then I was severely ill. How long have you been on meds now? You should start to feel better soon.....as for not sleeping, yes it is the prednisone, I was lucky if I got 3 to 4 hours a night while on the drug. Try taking a sleep aid that does not contain anything for pain such as sominex, it might help.
Hope you feel better soon and can get back to work. Will keep you in my prayers.
Many hugs and good wishes!!!
I have been on the prednisone for only a few days now and have about 2 months to go. They took me off all other meds except for vancomycin to get rid of the c.diff I ended up with again and in about 2 weeks I start a new maintenance med called Azathioprine, I think I spelled that right, had never heard of it but the Docs at Mayo are in charge of my treatment now and looking forward to feeling better. I am going to a new local Gastro Doc tomorrow and going to get him to write me a note to hopefully return to work on Wednesday, fingers crossed. Thanks for your thoughts means a lot.