A Positive Update
Well I saw my rheumy on Monday. It's been abt 5 wks since he put me on prednisone. I jokingly asked if I could go off all the prednisone & methotrexate. He just looked & laughed but did reduce the prednisone from 25 mg to 15. I could live with that. Then in one month we'll reduce it to 10 then one more month to 5 then off completely. Alas the methotrexate will hang around for a while but it won't be for long if I've got anything to say abt it, which of course I do, so there, LOL LOL.
I did ask the dr why I didn't put any weight on this time with the prednisone cause I sure did yrs ago. He felt that maybe the dosage this time was small enough that for my metabolism it just really didn't upset the apple cart. Either way - good thing.
But overall he was pleased that I seem to be stabilizing quite fast. I do know in my heart that my alternative health treatments are a major player in this. My new reflexologist is a very unbelievable lady. I've also done alot of reshaping of my lifestyle & abt 80% of the time stick to the plan. We all know that little bumps in the road happen but I don't let it happen too much.
One little event. My hubby has somehow got a touch of pneumonia. It's strange that it appeared to happen just, wham, in the blink of an eye. I'm thinking it must of been starting a bit & something just caused it to bloom. It's always a bit more worrisome when the person has COPD but he was put on antibiotics right away. This is day 2 & he's already starting to feel some improvement. Still feels pretty rundown though. Does anyone know - can you catch pneumonia like you can a cold say from person to person???? Just really puzzled abt it somehow.
So I guess thats abt it. Just thought I'd better post an update
I did ask the dr why I didn't put any weight on this time with the prednisone cause I sure did yrs ago. He felt that maybe the dosage this time was small enough that for my metabolism it just really didn't upset the apple cart. Either way - good thing.
But overall he was pleased that I seem to be stabilizing quite fast. I do know in my heart that my alternative health treatments are a major player in this. My new reflexologist is a very unbelievable lady. I've also done alot of reshaping of my lifestyle & abt 80% of the time stick to the plan. We all know that little bumps in the road happen but I don't let it happen too much.
One little event. My hubby has somehow got a touch of pneumonia. It's strange that it appeared to happen just, wham, in the blink of an eye. I'm thinking it must of been starting a bit & something just caused it to bloom. It's always a bit more worrisome when the person has COPD but he was put on antibiotics right away. This is day 2 & he's already starting to feel some improvement. Still feels pretty rundown though. Does anyone know - can you catch pneumonia like you can a cold say from person to person???? Just really puzzled abt it somehow.
So I guess thats abt it. Just thought I'd better post an update
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