Trudy
02-02-2012, 05:41 PM
I am so behind reading on here! I've been literally down lately. I was having trouble with my left leg and started using a cane about a month ago. I have neuropathy in both legs and assumed this was the cause. I had weaned from 20 mg Pred down to 15 mg (plus 100 mg Imuran), and continued to have increasing leg problems. Then Thursday it hurt to put any pressure on my left leg and I resorted to crutches and eventually the wheelchair.
In reading I found Prednisone aggravates neuropathy, yet the only relief I could get was not from pain meds, but bumping the pred back up. I was reminded that 30 years ago I had a bout with Sciatica and looked it up. Sure enough this described my pain generating from lower back, to hip, down to ankle perfectly. I also found that there is a current study just concluding that is experimenting with a Prednisone taper starting at 50 mg. My doc gave me codeine and said to take 30 mg pred and repeat later in day if needed, then taper in a few days. I can say the codeine doesn't seem to help and the pred is the only thing helping with the pain (or the healing). The inflamation is slowly getting better.
For those of you that also have neuopathy, have you had anything like this happen?
In reading I found Prednisone aggravates neuropathy, yet the only relief I could get was not from pain meds, but bumping the pred back up. I was reminded that 30 years ago I had a bout with Sciatica and looked it up. Sure enough this described my pain generating from lower back, to hip, down to ankle perfectly. I also found that there is a current study just concluding that is experimenting with a Prednisone taper starting at 50 mg. My doc gave me codeine and said to take 30 mg pred and repeat later in day if needed, then taper in a few days. I can say the codeine doesn't seem to help and the pred is the only thing helping with the pain (or the healing). The inflamation is slowly getting better.
For those of you that also have neuopathy, have you had anything like this happen?