solu medrol oral prednisone

For those of you who have had to get the solu-medrol treatment IV for 5 days, how did this affect you and your body? It has been a couple weeks since I stopped the out-patient treatment for the IV. I am still awake a lot of the time when I should be sleeping. I got about 2 hours of sleep last night, and today, I lay down to rest and I can't still.

I was diagnosed with Lupus Nephritus IV , my doctor had me do a 3 day IV treatment of 1g solu Medrol , each, that was a week ago. I was already on prednisone 60 mg a day and right before the treatment Cellcept was added. I am feeling like I got hit by bus ! I read elsewhere that most of my current issues are withdrawal from the Solu Medrol . I was wondering if anyone else has had this treatment and how long it took to feel" normal" ?

Anyone have any ideas how to cope with the solu-medrol headaches? I slept about 3 1/2 hours, nurse is coming back in 2 1/2 for round 2 of the infusion, so have a couple of more days with the headaches.

I have since had my first exacerbation in the form of ON and just finished a 6 day course of oral Solu-Medrol at home. The course of Solu-Medrol was initially supposed to be for 3 days, but there was no improvement of my condition, so the Doc decided to prescribe 3 more days worth. When I asked the Doctor about beginning D.M.D.s again, she said that I would need to discuss it with my Neurologist. I did so, and my Neurologist booked me an appointment for the end of this month.

My question is whether this feeling is a side effect of Solu-medrol or an MS symptom that his not being relieved by the Solu-medrol? I would be grateful for any insight!

Debs, It sounds like you mights as well take the Medrol - try it his way and then if it doesn't work out, you can go back and as for the solu-medrol. I'm guessing it is very close- just the "solu" means it is a liquid form (soluble) - again that's just my guess. Sorry you have to tough it out and take the meds - we all are taking stuff we would rather not ingest but do so because we're adults and understand the alternative. :-) Let us know how it goes...

I started my exacerbation in April of this year and immediately got on Solu-Medrol. I took the Solu-Medrol for 6 days at maximum dosage and tapered off with Prednisone. While my Optic Neuritis went away after only a couple of weeks or so, I soon had a Trigeminal Neuralgia attack. This only happened once, thank God, but a few days later, I began to experience difficulty walking. I still have difficulty walking, some days good, some days really bad, but the other symptoms have vanished.

I found out from the MS nurse that the rash I have all over my face, neck, and back is a side effect of my IV Solu-Medrol treatment and the taper dose of prednisone and is not a rash at all, but is acne. I thought the rash was from my sun exposure while in Mexico earlier this week and that the steroids were probably the culprit. So that was half right. But the nurse said it was acne yet it feels more like a rash to me.

I have an active lesion on my C4 spine (Nothing on my brain MRI) that the neuro treated with Solu-Medrol 500mg x5d. I am now on a 20 day taper of prednisone with a follow MRI in 2 months. I have not been dx with MS yet. Do any of you have any insight as to what type of questions/precedures we should be asking him about. I am new into the Neuro world but already learning that you have to maximixe your time with the Dr when you can!! Any insight/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am new to this forum, so not exactly sure how this works. I have had MS for 30 years, been on Copaxone for 8 years and haven't had problems until this Spring. I had a horrible cold, sinus drainage, etc. that would not go away. Dr. gave me antibiotics, didn't help. Then he gave another antibiotic, felt a little better, but still not well. Had a fever for over a month too. Finally I saw a different Dr. and she sent me for a CAT scan that day, I had TOTAL opacification in my sinus.

i had on hand a solu-medrol had my boyfriend give me inj 1.5cc Im glute but he gave it too me about 1 inch to the left and now i have swelling at the site about the size of a quarter i am a nursing student and try to walk him through it and made sure he aspirated will i be ok???

(They had to go look it up and call me back ) about there not being much difference in the efficacy of infusion or oral they sent in a script for oral prednisone which I started today. So far so good. Thanks again!

And of course my legs did it with the arm at the same time. My dr put me on oral prednisone x 2 weeks. The total length I had the symptoms was 5 weeks. It was really bad x 6 days then slowly improved. Each flare has left me with a tiny reminder of it's visit. For example, my legs get pins and needles regularly now but it comes and goes. My eye never totally recovered. My arm gets muscle twitches all the time. I hope this answers your questions.....

T CARE FOR THE STEROIDS.THEY ARE ORAL AND WORSE THAN SOLU-MEDROL,BUT WHEN THE DOC STATED HE WAS GONNA SHOCK MY SYSTEM,HE SUCCEEDED.IT'S A MED IN A TRIAL PERIOD FOR RHUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITS.YOU TAKE THEM FOR 6 DAYS,6000MGS DAY1 5000 MGS DAY 2,,4000 MGS DAY 3, 3000MGS DAY 4,2000 MGS DAY 2 AND A 1000MGS THE LAST DAY AND OH, DO THEY MAKE ME MEANER THAN A JUNK YARD DOG,THE KIDS AND THE DOG ARE HIDING FROM ME(LOL).

Hi LA, I am on a baby does of predinosone. Appx 2 weeks ago my GP gave me an injection of solu-medrol. I didn't expect it to help any but it did. A couple of days later I started 5 mig daily of prednisone. I haven't fluffed up yet :) I was already on my way to being fluffy. I have noticed my appetite has not increased with the prednisone, but my doc said the fluffyness would come from water retention. Laxix anyone? I am only to take it for 30 days, half way through now.

I have just been weaned off of steroids after being on them for a month (MD put me on IV Solu-Medrol every 2 hours when I was hospitalized recently for bronchitis; followed by Medrol Dose pack which did not work, followed by prednisone). The side effects of the steroids were intolerable. When I was on them, I felt better and functioned better, but had horrible insomnia and euphoria.

I did 5 days of Solu-Medrol on an outpatient basis in October 2007, to deal with my first major attack. The only side effect I experienced was the strange metal taste. For the first couple of days, everything I ate, even chocolate, tasted terrible. The treatment sessions were fine, maybe a slight burning session for the first several minutes after the IV was inserted and the drip started. I did not experience insomnia or any of the other things they warn you about.

While there I was further given 125 mg of Solu Medrol by IV and that took care of the rash. Today marks 9 days since the IV and when I last took some prednisone. I believe I used some of the topical the day after. Anyways in the 9 days since I have had a lot of trouble sleeping, palpitations (gone away for the most part), a nervous stomach feeling when I wake up and immediately after I eat anything. Due to this I have also developed some depression.

Went to neuro-optho who placed me on three days of solu-medrol (IV) and three weeks of oral steroids (3x day). A year later and still no change in optic neuritis. However, I wanted to know why. Got answer through MS neuro who followed through on tests and uncovered MS. Second symptom showed up two weeks prior to the anniversary of the optic neuritis, pins and needles in feet. Now on Neurotin to help with parathesia. Slows me down a little but it's helping.

I was having random face flushing as well especially when I was on oral prednisone and also the IV steroids. It was so obvious that the neuro in the ER was checking every part of my body wondering if I was having some kinds of reaction to the antibiotic I was taking. Of course she prescribed an IV push of 250mg of solu medrol because of this and guess what? More flushing! How do you know when you are getting the flushness?

I have a quick question for you all... My neurologist says he doesn't want to give me Solu-Medrol for this "flare" because he said it would affect the MRI results as well as the LP if we do it fairly soon. Is what he told me true or is he just making me suffer for no reason? I don't know any better and thought who best to ask than you guys. Thanks so much.

i had a 3-day solu-medrol infusion last week after a c-spine MRI revealed possible myelitis. i have had all the yucky side effects from the steroids which are subsiding--thank heavens--but instead of feeling better, it seems as though my other symptoms are getting worse--buzzing, achey joints, etc. is this typical? is it the case where things will get worse before they get better?

A hefty dose of oral steroids is 80 mg or so of Prednisone and about 60mg of Medrol. The dose used in MS is 1000mg of the Medrol equivalent and 1200mg of the prednisone equivalent. It isn't just the overall dose that is important, but how fast you increase the level. With oral administration the pills must dissolve and then be absorbed. By definition the level does not go up very fast. With IV administration the level is instantaneously high.

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