Happy June!!
Finally the end of the school year is near. The last six weeks have been quite interesting. From depression to elation, I have survived it all.
I wanted to focus on a positive that is happening. After having my labs be in the green range for almost everything for over a year and a half, it has been agreed that I should start weaning off of the daily prednisone that I take. This is to help prevent osteoporosis. So….the rheumatologist and I came up with a plan. Slowly convert down to the next level, re-evaluate once I am there, and then maybe start to go all the way off or go down one more level.
Well, about four weeks into the first part of the plan, I ran into a new problem. I got to the point that I was taking 4 days of prednisone at a lower amount and 3 days at the original amount. I started spotting about every other day. I contacted the rheumatologist and my gynecologist. Rheumatologist said to stop reducing medication any further. Just keep it stable. Then suggested I see the gynecologist. I already had.
Now, speculation…… I am not a doctor. I believe the spotting is due to the fact that I am reducing my steroid level down and my body reacted. It has been 18 months since my last period and my endometrial lining could just be thinning because of this medication change.
Gynecologist did an exam and ultrasound. My lining is thick for being in menopause. Then a biopsy was needed. I hope I don’t have to go through that again. The procedure was not bad. It seems to be the medication that made me more ill. Now I am just waiting on the biopsy results.
(This is twice now that medication for a procedure has made me more sick than the procedure itself. I will have to question my specialists about this.)
In the mean time, I am keeping my prednisone the same. Four days a week I am at the lower dose and three the higher dose. I had to put up a chart on my kitchen cupboard to keep track of which day I am to take what. Some days it gets very confusing.
Somehow I know God has a plan for this. I am still here.