An interesting thing happened days after I posted my October health update.
My husband and I went out of town for a few days. (You can read the whole story in last month's non-health update.) A bad restaurant dinner caused extreme diarrhea, blood, and pain the following morning. In desperation, I took one, 10 mg prednisone pill. Several hours later I was able to join my husband at the event we'd planned to attend. I did a LOT of walking that day and my whole body, including my colon, did well.
Once on the prednisone, the problems I was feeling last month . . . the loose, stripping stool, the bad urgency (still some, urgency seems to be one of the last things to improve), and the occasional achy, uncomfortable stomach all went away. And that awful, worse than I've ever known fatigue? That's gone, too. I still have the normal fatigue that has vexed me most of my life, but that feeling of my body being empty and not wanting/able to do things is also gone.
Ah, prednisone, my miracle drug!
I continued taking the one prednisone pill for two weeks and then tapered to a half pill for a week. I have now been off the prednisone for a week.
For the moment, I'm feeling pretty good, all things considered. My stool starts out looking okay (still not normal), but it finishes with strips. And as I've already mentioned, my urgency is still at the point where I need to sort of be aware of bathroom locations. Also on the good side, I go the bathroom once in the morning and then don't go the rest of the day, mostly. As long as there is an available toilet as soon as I wake up, I'm good.
As I almost always say at the end of my health updates, we'll see how I do over the next month.
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