Twenty five! I never thought I'd make it! It has taken me 315 days (which is equivalent to 10 months, or 45 weeks, or 7,560 hours) to get from 80mg of Prednisolone to 25 mg! I guess in the big scheme of things (and compared to others) that's not such a terribly long time... And it's not a "race," right? So today, I embrace 25! I celebrate it! I own it!
1. 25 is the atomic number of manganese.
2. In Islam, there are 25 prophets mentioned in the Quran.
3. In jewellery, 6 carats is equal to 25 percent of gold mass.
4. Number 25 helps us get into our own mind and self, because it is a symbol of introspection.
5. The M25 is the name of the London Orbital motorway.
6. 25 is the sum of the single-digit odd natural numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, the first five odd natural numbers.
7. Pachisi, the Hindu word for 25, is one of the national games of India.
8. In the UK a "pony" is slang for 25 pounds.
9. The part of the name of LSD-25 molecule.
10. 25 is the number of years of marriage marked in a silver wedding anniversary.
11. The minimum age of candidates for election to the United States House of Representatives.
12. The number of cents in a quarter.
13. The name of an Irish card game
14. 25 is the per-second frame rate of the PAL video standard.
15. The name of Adele's 2015 album, named for her age in that year.
16. The number of the French department Doubs.
17. The temperature, in Celsius, at which some characteristics of semiconductors are specifically given in a data sheet.
18. The number of panels on the TV Asahi quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25.
19. In Ezekiel's vision of a new temple: The number twenty-five is of cardinal importance in Ezekiel's Temple Vision
20. In baseball, the number 25 is typically reserved for the best slugger on the team.
21. 'World Pasta Day' is held on the 25th October every year.
22. The number of Florida electoral votes that won the 2000 U.S. presidential election was 25.
23. An average week worth of coffee cost an American $25
24. In Roman Numeral the number 25 is XXV
25. The exact number of Prednisolone milligrams I am taking as of TODAY!
Cheers Primarose! It does indeed seem like a "magic" number!!!! I'm so looking forward to 20 too, as Rheumy said I might actually start feeling like "myself" at 20!!!!
Well done, hope you do soon start feeling like yourself soon...
I often wonder if I ever will at 9mg....my blurred vision is now so bad and balance it`s making me housebound....but it`s also making me bloody determined on 10th Oct when seeing Endo to get answers, or asked to be referred to another dept....or go private.....anyway, hope you had a lovely holiday, and did wonder about you under that roof!....
Bummer Longtimer! I do see that people have issues at the lower mg too... which scares the crap out me! I always thought the problems were at the 50's, 60, and 70 mg's! YES, give em hell and demand answers! ; ) The holiday was just what the doctor ordered... thank you! 🍷 🥓🍷🧀🍷
Just started tapering from 4.5 to 4. PMR pains lurk but I ignore them. I’m craving sugar lately and went from 107 lbs. to 110...emotional eating reins at this time...ice cream called my name last night!
4.0! Way cool!!!!!! Good on you, ignore the pain as long as you can!!!! I am at the heaviest weight I have even been, in my life!!!! We arrived home from France on Saturday and since then, no wine, no bread, no ice cream, no cheese, no lovely milky coffee... NOPE! It is time to get serious! 😠
Just went for a walk (or with this knee, should I say a "hobble?") 1.9 miles. Had a nice coffee, no sugar. Watched hubby eat a lovely pastry thingy, filled with feta cheese and spinach! Mmmmmmm. I had nothing. I am determined!!!! Will be on the stationary bike after dinner!
I motivate YOU? Look at your photo... you are stunning! And wicked thin! I look like I am 9 months pregnant! I did cheat last night and had a juice glass of red wine... after being in France, drinking GREAT wine... it's hard to go COLD TURKEY! You keep up the good work... 👍🏻
A little wine is good for you and doesn’t count as a cheat! I stopped drinking immediately after diagnosis, eliminated sugar, night shades, took Tumeric tablets and was the ideal patient. 15 months later I realized I wouldn’t fall off the earth if I had sugar! When I tell dates I don’t drink some think I’m a recovering alcoholic! I say I prefer dessert.🍦🥧🍰🍩. Sunday I had a date with a short, egomaniac dermatologist after which I took myself out for ice cream!
So sorry about the bowel situation. G-d is hysterical from you! Thanks for the compliments. This age thing is kicking my butt!
You gotta live life... otherwise why are we sticking around, right? A little sugar here... a little wine there. It's all good! Good on you, after a date with short, egomaniac dermatologist... I would have had the Banana Split!!!! ...with extra chocolate sauce!
THANKS teesher!!!!! In one way it seems like I've been fighting the battle for years, but in another, it seems like the last 10 months have flown by! Funny how our mind warps time, huh? Hoping you are feeling A-OK!
Keep it going M. Well done. Another one for the list:- Zager & Evans........1969...." In the year 2525" ......
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Ahhhhhhh, GOOD ONE! Thanks! Hope you are well and that you get that BS straightened out at the GPs and "Myhealthcare!"
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Lovely sunny day here & feeling ok ta. Just back from an amble up the cut. A few fishermen there today sitting in silence staring into the water. Had to limbo under their extended fishing poles!!!! (must be joking). Another one for the list:- "25 hours (minus 1) from Tulsa"..... Gene Pitney. Must be the endorphins!! I'll pack in now!
Yes thank you I'm plodding along nicely. Tapering dead slow n successfully 🤞 This week going for 5.5 taking the advice of the learned on here and going .5 at a time. Onwards and downwards for us all 😋
Cheers Daisychain12!!!! Not sure what I did much, but go along for the ride... and do my best to stay on this bucking bronco, but it does feel like an accomplishment for some reason. I hope you are feeling better! xx
I’m hanging in there. I’ve got from 75 and even a couple of days over 100, to 13. I have many side effects from reducing. I am agitated and have a bike temper and huge appetite. But I have a clearer head at times and the pain is not back so that’s good. What’s this about you making some masks? Xxx
So happy for you Melissa - such a journey - and I'm pleased you took a break from here when in France - and clearly had some OTHER fun. I am now on 16 mg after a rather faster taper than I would have preferred - but had to consider the myopathy side effect - which is now fading thank heavens. This is not my lowest in my approx 20 months since diagnosis but getting back there. You WILL feel more like your 'old self' soon - I am - it REALLY DOES happen !!!
GREAT NEWS Rimmy! I am thrilled to hear the myopathy is fading!!!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 Yes, France was a good distractor... although I have managed to conjure up some new, "fun" and interesting tests of my tolerance and perseverance! Watch this space.
Love to Ruth! She must be THRILLED about myopathy fading too... no more cranky Rimmy! 😉
Good for you!! You have much cause to celebrate given the long and sometimes difficult journey you’ve travelled over the past 10 months. I’m hoping your pred reduction journey goes smoothly (and likely slowly) moving forward.
Wow,you certainly know your 25’s mamici,l wish you a successful taper ,l hope you are feeling well ,you have been through so much to get this far and l am so pleased for you xx
Could we meet for World Pasta Day on the 25th of October? You break your diet, I do the same. Congratulations are definitely due you, but are we going to begin to miss those rants, fulminations, 'roid rages and other effusions? Brava!
I think it was Zager and Evans who sang that eerie song first - but maybe Bowie did a version - it would have suited him - it is rather 'creepy' and depressing but sadly apt as well know ... And why can't you say 'well done' !!? - everybody else here is 'subjective' even if it is in their reference to some 'chosen' scientific data - in the end we are all always 'subjective aren't we - and anyway I thought this forum is about the integration of the experiential and the 'scientific' so nobody should be 'telling you off' !
Well we can't begrudge the 'lucky' ones as after all it isn't really about 'effort' just the course of the disease in each individual - and that IS always 'individual'. I am sometimes myself amazed at what some people have done or seem to be doing and wonder why I couldn't be doing that myself - but let's face it we all know our limitations when the 'hit' us and in the end nobody should be telling anyone off - especially not someone as empathic as YOU SJ !
Seriously! I think we all need to take a "chill pill," and RELAX! Nobody should be telling anyone off, especially SJ!!!! ...and you are right Rimmy, she is one of the most empathic people I know!
She’s perfectly nice and had a good point. Will power gets us nowhere with tapering. You do sound fierce, 25 suits you. Where is my mask? Get the paper mache out. 😁
'Fierce' 👹 can be good ..... in a creative context - but be careful as 'they' put some very brilliant women especially artists 'away' like Camille Claudel - 30 years in an asylum !! - I hope I don't end up there myself - but I'm not 'fierce' or brilliant enough to be too threatening .... whereas you ....
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