solumedrol leg pain

m walking straight up and down (or very nearly) instead of leaning to the right because of the weakness on my left leg. Also the tightness in my muscles in my left leg feels significantly better. Numbess is the same, but the dizziness also seems to be improving so far. I hope it lasts. :-) So quick question: I know steroids can make you susceptible to infections, but has anyone developed a UTI on solumedrol? I had the unmistakable first inklings of one a bit ago.

I had a 4 day Solumedrol drip and then step down pack in February and it made me worse. All my muscles tightened up and I have more pain than I did before. Call it a major fibromyalgia attack. Even now in May, I am still as stiff and woozy as i was after the glucocorticoid therapy. Sigh. Did nothing for me that I can tell. I did sweat a lot during the treatment so maybe i lost a few toxins?

ve had a horrible experience with Solumedrol as well.....Back in March I had extreme leg and groin numbness and went on IV Solumedrol for 3 days....I had a nasty reaction to it, but it DID take away the numbness and vision problems almost immediately....Well, within 48 hours anyway..... In May the left side of my head and face went numb and because I was visiting the MS Clinic at that time, I declined the Solumedrol treatment.....That numbness didn't go away for 20 days.....

My flare-up began in June and involved short periods (1-2 minutes) where I would lose control of my left leg and then my right leg would feel like it was being filled with hot water. At one point this was happening about 15 times per day. I took a round of Solumedrol (3 days) and began taking 300 mg of Lyrica per day. It now happens 4 or 5 times per week. My doctor prescribed another round of Solumedrol which is scheduled for next week (30 days from the first one).

The left side of my face is down to just a slight tingling feeling with no real pain. The twitching in my leg is all but gone. My right arm is still twitching but not quite as much. The shooting/burning/ pain in my arms is very slight and so far no numbness in them or my leg since about 7 last night. Well, I was asleep for awhile, so who knows about then? lol. I'm definitely walking better too, though not back to my normal footdrop gait yet. I don't feel so off balance either.

To help with sudden and severe balance problems, and leg weakness in January, I had the mega dose oral steroids for 3 days followed by the taper off. That didn't help, so I had the 3 day mega dose IV solumedrol. I did not do the tapering off pills, because I was having a reaction to the medicine. Since the end of February my ankles are swollen everyday, all day. I asked my neurologist, and she said it is a side effect of the solumedrol. Any one else experience this.....

Searching, I found you and am excited that there is a group that may actually be able to answer some of my questions. The first thing he wants to do is put me on solumedrol for 5 days, I am not currently in a flair. Any reason I should put myself through that if I am not currently having symptoms?

Hi all. I was diagnosed with RRMS two years ago and am on Copaxone. I am having my first relapse and am wondering if I need to go see the neuro or if this is something I just muster through. My symptoms, while annoying, are not debilating. I've had tingling in my left leg on the front from knee to foot and back pain. This has been going on for about 5 days. At what point should I get my neuro involved if at all? Thank you all for your help and support.

My doc asked me how I was doing. I told him that my trigeminal nerve was bugging me but that it was not shooting pain. Some numbness, some tingeling some tooth/ear pain, but not the sharp stabbing pains I had directly after deliery. He said that he was not concerned about it too much then. Then he asked me to follow his finger with my eyes.....1 inch to either side and he noticed my eyes not tracking together.

I have been on prednisone for 1 month now, 5 days of IV solumedrol and now i'm on a maintenance of 80mg of pred. I'm having severe side effects and don't know how to deal with them. *leg swelling *night sweats *severe mood swings *uncontrolled hunger *severe body pain any advice on how to cut down on some of the symptoms?

t have a lot of severe symptoms yet, but I think I jinxed myself because the past 2 days I have had problems with my legs (mainly in my upper leg and hips) and have had a really hard tie walking. I am supposed to start steroids soon and hopefully that will help. Walking is kind of important when you have to go to work.

just last week I started having ridiculous trouble with my right legs/hips/knees and am walking with am limp and wanting to drag that leg..am STARTING DAY 3 of solumedrol and feeling slightly improved but the pain/difficulty walking has moved from hip to knee to ankle on the right side. my question is..will this go away or will it remain? does it sound like spacticity? Do I need to see an orthopedist? PT? meds? talk with the neuro?? any advice??

When I had ON I had to do this only 12 hour after onset because the pain was intolerable. They started me on Solumedrol asap and within hours the pain was gone and within a couple of days the foggy vision resolved.

I will be patient and give the Copaxone time to work. The solumedrol does help with the fatigue and it relieved my hand and leg pain for a few days but the pain came back. It did not seem to help as much as it has in the past. Maybe I just need a higher dose than 1000. Thanks again.

Hello I am a 25 year old female and four weeks ago I was diagnosed with optic neuritis, I was admitted to the hospital for 5 days of IV solumedrol therapy (1000 mg a day). After the treatment my vision mostly came back and the eye pain was completely gone. At the same time I also had a burning arm pain in my right arm with numbness and tingling into my fingers. During my hospital stay I had an MRI of my head, which was normal.

I am scheduled Monday to do an IV for three days of Solumedrol. Has anyone else done that and if so, what is your opinion. I am alittle nervous about it.

I am currently being treated with 1 gm Solumedrol once/month. I had a three day course last spring and felt AWFUL afterwards. I did eventually feel a bit better overall, so maybe it was worth it. Even the one day dose makes me feel pretty lousy. My sx actually seem to get worse for a few days afterward! I'm not dx, but symptomatically fit the diagnostic criteria (we'll see what the 3T MRI has to say...

Sitting here having just had a gram of solumedrol pumped into me and now having my tysabri cocktail. I asked to se the NP because my right leg has decided it would stop working correctly and was just along for the ride- step, drag, step, drag was my recent gait. Definitely in need of steroids to kick start the healing but a quick dip also shows I have a UTI. That's the first one in at least 18 months.

Just had a flare where my left leg is just kinda useless...hard to explain. I did solumedrol, but havent really seen any improvement and have been wondering when to call the neuro back.

I had my first dose of solumedrol this morning. For a while I've had some weird tremors (with muscle contraction primarily, but also visible when I hold my hands out, to type or something). I know some fine tremor is normal, but these were more than usual. Now they're much more pronounced today. Is this a normal side effect? I don't feel particularly jittery or wired, but I know it can affect people differently.

Generally, Solumedrol is used when the acute vision in the affected eye is very low or when there is significant pain. Low dose oral steroids were shown to be a bad thing, because they increased the number of attacks of optic neuritis that the people suffered. This finding had been challenged, but follow up studies added evidence to the finding.

The neurologist decided to give me 1g for 5 days of solumedrol to see if the pain would go away. Mind you, I was NOT in pain at the time of the appointment. On the 5th day of the treatment, I started to get eye pain again, and developed dry eye. It has been 4 weeks and I still feel numbness and tingling on different parts of my body. Is this normal? My eyes are more painful than ever. Is this still from the Steroids? or is it the disease progressing?

I'm not a doctor, but at the end of March I went to the ER with severe right leg and groin numbness and I had to have 3 days of IV Solumedrol (Methylprednisolone) at 1000 mg/day.... In my humble opinion, there is NO way that my numbness would have subsided with a cortisone shot. Do you have MS?? T.

I have been having progressively worsening pain in my hips and right leg. My left hip hurts on the outside It get stiff and tired and very painful. Now the right leg is a mess. Right hip (maybe gluteous muscle) and groin muscle just fight against me to walk if I am on my feet more than a few minutes. I just get severe leg pain and fatigue. I have noticed that my right foot is turning outward when I walk. I am taking 20 mg of Baclofen 3x daily.

I had my first course of solumedrol Friday-Tuesday. Last night (Thursday night) I began needing to urinate every 30-60 minutes. Not like tons and tons. But also not my bladder fooling me. And it continues today! I can't get a hold of my @$&#%& neurologist. So of course my question is whether this happens with steroids. Anybody?

When I saw my MS specilaist for my once a year visit, he recommended that I take 2 days of solumedrol each monthe while I am off the betaseron trying to conceive dear child #3. Well I have proof as of today that we failed this month. This us much more of a letdown than I expected. I as sure it is because I don't want to take the steroids again. I feel bad for days and days after, and I am starting to hadt what it makes me look like. Should I to the iv's or not?

SoluMedrol? That is what I had on both occasions. I hope these disturbing sensations soon pass for you, and for me too!

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