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I felt better for the first day (wednesday) on the steroid and thats it.
yesterday I started feeling worse again with bad back pain, tenderness to the touch all the way down the spine right in the middle.
I think I have a chronic meningitis, I had really severe neck pain in the back of my head/neck and neurological signs and a lot of pressure in the head
last night I had fever and sweats all night
this is not a normal reaction to steroid. it should have worked for more than one day. i know I reduce the dose by one pill every day, but that should not make this much of a difference
I seem to remember if you spike a fever after steroid it means infection. but i thought that was after you stop it.
going back to the dr today.
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merrygirl
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Sorry to hear...
Are you taking abx at the same time?? I forget.
I hope you feel better soon.
Melissa
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Sorry to hear about your 1 day relief from steroid.
This was exactly the result from my ESI (lumbar epidural steroid injection) 4 years ago before I was diagnosed with Lyme/coinfections. My symptoms worsened greatly after that 1 day and have not improved.
My relief was actually less than 1 day - more like a few hours. It was so brief that I questioned whether it might just be a placebo effect.
I saw your other post about the damage to your spine caused by Lyme. I'm sure I have experienced this damage since 12/21/1994. The upside is that I have not yet been confined to a wheelchair.
Best of luck to you.
Dave
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this must be viral or fungal. I am thinking fungal since I had a bad funga infection about a month ago, and was on 10 days of diflucan, and it hasn't completely resolved.
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timaca
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or it's viral...check out the viral testing thread.
Timaca
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