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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Goodbye Steroids

Today is my last dose of steroids and I'm quite glad really as a few of the side effects starting now aren't that great. I really enjoy the energy they give me and 'the false sense of being well' , however I am not enjoying the indigestion problems (constipation and now the opposite!), mood swings, waking up at 5am and not being able to get back to sleep, greasy, spotty face, dry mouth/thirst and sweaty hands! Luckily my face doesn't seem to have gone all bloated, but I know it would if I stayed on them for longer as it has in the past.

As I have been reducing the dose I have felt more and more irritable so I am dreading the first few days of been off them completely. It doesn't help when people annoy me, like the woman who stormed out of her house on Monday to have a go at me for Alfie weeing on her plant when all he did was sniff it or the woman who when I asked her to recall her dog away from me and Alfie as it was jumping all over us and getting tangled in Alfie's lead and she was just ignoring it, told me 'he just wants to play' 'this is a park you know'! These type of situations do not help!

I am worried that I will start to feel unwell again though, I'm still coughing sputum up during the night and I keep getting this horrible rumbling in my chest and crackling day and night but then I don't really cough anything up! I tend to cough lots up in my morning physio but not much in my evening physio but then as soon as I'm in bed its crackle, rumble and then I sometimes wake up choking on sputum!

I am trying to go to the gym lots and I went four times last week so very impressed with myself! Will be interesting to see if I can keep this up once I'm off the steroids!

Weight wise I have no idea as one day I weigh 53kg another day I weigh 55kg, but I am eating more and having my supplements so trying my best!

I have a busy few weeks coming up so not really done much the past week. I did take Alfie to a dog class last Thursday, one of the tasks was to get your dog to sit on eight mats one after the other all in a row and Alfie managed it in 28 seconds, yeay!

I've got to have a filling next Monday and I'm scared, I've never had a filling in my life and no idea what they do, so wish me luck!