No headache or head tension today so I’ll stick with the 60mg steroids. Our neighbours came back off holiday and Karen commented how much better my face was looking, and I have to say it is. Maybe by the time the family get back in less than 2 weeks time it will be very normal. My chest and shoulders still look bad, but no itching!
I almost feel I don’t need to apply the steroid cream and Cetraben, it feels and looks so much better now, but I’ll continue to do so as the steroid cream promotes faster healing, and I still need that skin barrier assist of the Cetraben. Just a tiny amount of soreness still on my face under my eyes on my cheekbones where I guess the skin is closest to the bone, but that’s it.
This is the 9th day of 60mg Prednisone – 30mg seeemed to be only a holding pattern, maybe a *little* better, but not enough to really notice and it may have been months to see anything – and all this real improvement has happened during that period. The amount I’m taking continues to worry me, but if it can clear most of this mess up in the rest of the 4 weeks at this dose, then good.
After this month I drop down to 55mg and then another appointment on the 13th September at 10:15 with Dr H. Hopefully when she sees me it will be an impressive amount of change and the photographer will take some more photos for the medical staff records. I’m okay with that as it’s a learning hospital and I see the advantages of documenting it all. Maybe this site will be of use to them too.
