In today's "Holy Smokes" discovery, I learned that solumedrol (the IV form of pred) is stronger than oral pred. I found this nifty conversion calculator, where you can put in the solumedrol dose (methylprednisolone) and get the corresponding prednisone dose.

Be prepared to be shocked unless you already knew this. All this time I thought I had started Wegs treatment in 2006 on 1,000 mg IV pred. (I thought calling it solumedrol was just a technicality.) Turns out that's equivalent to 1,250 mg pred. A whopping 1/4 higher than I thought.

And the 125 mg solumedrol I've been getting during rituxan IVs is actually 156 mg!!

The reason why this blows my mind so much is that I can barely tolerate 4 mg these days. No wonder I've been feeling so lousy. Sheesh.