prednisone

[Numptybrain]

It’s been years since I’ve been on prednisone and then I was on dosages of 40/30mg per day for brittle asthma but now it’s for pleural/pericardial effusion and I’ve reduced from 29 to 15 mg my 2nd week I feel extremely short of breath my ankles and wrists still hurt so does my lumbar back which hurt prior to going on steroids. The prednisone is taking the effusion away, nothing has touched this in over a year. I have been suspected of having a connective tissue disease by my respiratory team since this journey began a year gone February, but now a rheumatologist hastily decided to try prednisone as a diagnosis purpose as I’m ANA negative. Not sure if this is all PMR or something else mixed in especially with ankle wrist and back involved but I also have osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. I’ve spoken on here before but my steroids were due to stop completely beginning may, I’ve contacted rheumatologist secretary today to advise her if recent results and rheumatologist is going to keep me on a lower dose longer, hopefully stop the fluid returning.