I'm still feeling pretty good. I've now been back on the prednisone for almost three weeks. I've been on 10 mg a day, one pill, for five days. My stool has still not returned to its fully solid form and is at a 4.6 on the Bristol Stool Chart. But everything else is great. I've been able to do a few more mile walks with my spouse and dog. I'm feeling well enough to start getting some much needed things done, like clean up the pantry (so we can actually walk into it) and clean out a closet.
And I've ate salad . . . big salad, with spinach, butter lettuce, a few cherry tomatoes, garbanzo beans, cheddar cheese, and croutons . . . twice in the last two weeks and have not had any adverse affects.
I am having some light bouts of insomnia, which I've never had before. I've always had the rare occasion where I lay in bed awake for several hours, but usually even then I could get at least four or five hours sleep. This is different. I sleep for a few hours, wake up and my mind starts going crazy (or my leg muscles start aching for some reason) and that is that. Or, I did have one night where I lay in bed wide-awake for a few hours, arose thinking it would be for thirty minutes or an hour and ended being up the entire night. It is weird to hear the roosters go off when you haven't slept at all. (I am writing this at four o'clock in the morning.) So far, the insomnia only lasts a day or two and then I'm okay for awhile.
I'm assuming the insomnia is a side-effect of the prednisone. When I was on the higher dose, I would occasionally have trouble falling asleep, but that was all. Perhaps I've been taking prednisone long enough that it is starting to build up in my body. I haven't researched yet whether that is possible. I have been diligent about making sure I properly taper off of the prednisone the three times I've tried to go off of it. And I did go seven weeks without it before I had to jump on it again. I would have thought that would have given my body plenty of time to get it out of my system.
Anyway, my next follow-up doctor's appointment is in two weeks. So much to talk about at that appointment!
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