Advice needed

[Leesy]

Hi,

Just need some advice regarding prednisolone, I am going to hospital tomorrow for a pleural aspiration (taking fluid from around my lung) for a biopsy, as after months of having a pleural effusion and mentioning the pain at every doctor and rheumy appointment they have discovered a spot on my lung, which they don't think is cancer but want to be sure which is good but why has it taken so long, I am going to look into this further. Anyway just wanted to know should I take extra pred I am between 5 1/2 and 6mg at the moment.

Thanks Leesy

[lupus-support1 Administrator]

I am sorry to read you have been poorly and hope all goes well.

You should contact your doctor. No one can offer advice unless your doctor. They should have discussed this with you.

I am sorry I cannot help you. Please let me know how you get on.

With good wishes,

Ros

[Bethlachance]

I had the same issue with my lung....had to do the biopsy as well. It looked like a large mass on my lung and didn't appear to be an overall pleurisy like with most Lupus patients with lung involvement. Turned out to be a inflammation. I had to take a leave of absence from work, took a hefty dose of steroids, and had to rest. It did resolve and I was left with no damage to my lung.

I hope your biopsy was proven benign and your doctor has you in a regimen to recover.

[Leesy in reply to Bethlachance]

Thanks for your reply, they didn't do the biopsy in the end as they said there wasn't enough fluid, I have a respiratory appointment next month, suppose I will have to wait until then to see what they want to do, wasn't prescribed anything, still on steroids 5mg have a little pain so hopefully it will go as yours did. I did ask the doctor who was doing the ultrasound if it wasn't fluid what was causing the pain and he just said probably inflammation, I just wonder if they do actually know. Hopefully I will get a referral to a lupus specialist, nobody gives you a positive answer it is always probably the lupus.

Hope you are feeling well now.

Leesy