I know I just posted but....

I know I just posted but after I posted I realized that there has been no mention as to why I am on steroids. I have panhypopituitarism, specific reason for the steroids is the adrenal insufficency part of the pan diagnosis.

In October of last year I went through a period of time where my body was not absorbing the steroids, which resulted in me feeling like crap, low blood sugars and no energy to put it simply. We switched from hydrocortisone to prednisone. And with me having another bout of not having the right blood levels we had to double the dose on my replacements.

I have been realitively stable so we decided that we would work on getting down to the appopriate physiological dose, which is 5mg and 2.5mg over a period of several months. Right now I am taking between 10-15mg twice a day so it is going to be at least several more months. Especially since the step down to 15 and 10 this week has not gone well

I will see pain managment tomorrow and hopefully have more than a couple of minutes with my doc, he is a very busy man but since there are a lot of openings tomorrow I am hopeful. I will be having an occipital nerve block. Which is a little bit freaky to be honest. And talking about a concern I have with the up coming procedure on 2/5 the sedation needs to be tweaked because I felt way to much in my opinion. And didnt have the nice out of my head experience where although you are aware that you hurt and are having something done to you you really dont care that much.

I will also see about getting the Prior Authorization done on the imitrex which I have been trying to get done for over a month.

There is a chance that he will also write for some more oral pain medication the fall on monday, the procedure last week, and the weather changes have all sent my pain into overdrive. I have kept a record of when I took the stronger pain meds that I recieved and will bring that with me because I did go through it faster than they really wanted me too.

Mindy