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Thank you for your advice re steroid level preventing surgery

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Thanks to so many of you who replied to me on this. After contacting my knee surgeon he said achieving 5mg a day was 'not written in stone' and that he will operate on 2 November if I can get down to +/- 10mg by then. So I'm working on it. Thank you so much.

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Good

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If you don't ask ... Fingers crossed!!!!

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Yes - thank you.

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A bit of understanding goes a long way. Hope it works out ok.

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