Since my last blog I started doing very well, I saw my friends, had some really good days, was managing to sleep alright and really hadn'y been feeling anxious at all, just taking things in my stride and knowing that things were all going to get better once the steroids were gone. Plus I had all my plans to start getting my programming work back on track, start my disserttation research, etc. etc. and seeing my mates more.
My Steroids are being brought down 2.5MG at a time, I'm currently down to a 5MG dose every morning and thats all but it seems that the tapering down of them is almost as bad as taking them in the first place. It's midnight now and I'm sat here with terrible muscle cramps that just won't let me get to sleep, last night was the same but even worse, I was in agony. In terms of painkillers I've tried Co-codomol, codeine, paracetemol, deep heat and that doesn't really seem to scratch it. I've even just tried one of my diazapam, I don't know, I don't know if that was sensible but it's all I've got really.
I do have sleeping pills but it seems a waste to use one when I know I can't drop off when I'm in pain (it was last night). To make things worse I've developed sores and cold sores in my mouth which have been waking me up whenever the muscle cramps decide to subside. Still I have a course of pills for that so that should be cleared up in 5 days or so.
I've been researching the muscle cramps from the prednisone (or prednisolone) online and its very, very common which makes me feel a little better but it just seems theres nothing I can do about it. Theres no advice, the best I've got is eat advacado and banana's... great. Just when I start to get back to a good nights sleep I'm hit by this crap.
Pain's starting to subside now I've been sat up a while so I guess I'll try and get back to sleep, hopefully it'l keep off long enough for me to get a few hours at least.
