11 is the Magic Number

Oral prednisone: My ticket home?

Finally a breakthrough after 11 days on IV steroids!  Everyone says that it should only take 3-5 days to see a difference from Solu-Medrol, but I guess when you let things get out of control for so long, it can take longer.  While I'm certainly not close to symptom-free, frequency and blood loss are finally lessening. 

So tonight I begin oral prednisone to see if I can get off the IV.  If all stays stable, they'll let me go home in a few days to continue recovering there.  And as my doctor says, I'll continue to stick "all that stuff up my butt."  Yes, the enemas may have been the big lifesavers this week. 

The going home plan is 40mg of oral prednisone, 80mg of Humira every week, and cortifoam/hydrocortisone enemas morning and night.  I'm basically a giant water balloon of steroids, but I'll take whatever works.