"Roid" Rage

[angela5674]

Hi everyone...well, as I said in another post a few days ago, Thursday was my last Solumedrol treatment.  This was the first time I've ever gotten steroids, and, let me just say, it's been an experience!  Friday and Saturday have been awful!  I've felt like I've been in a fog.  I'd been dizzy, anxious, irritable, exhausted, depressed, mad...I could go on, but I'll spare you!  I'd been trying to just isolate so as to not inflict my negative energy onto my family.  Last night, they were not so lucky.  We were eating dinner and I got on to my poor daughter about something.  She said to me "What's your problem today?"  I screamed at the top of my lungs (!) "I'm on steroids."  I felt absolutely out of control.  I felt crazy.  It came out of my mouth so fast, and with such force, that I honestly couldn't have stopped it if I tried.  And I, of course, felt awful afterwards.  

I never received a taper after the steroids, and I'm assuming this is one of the reasons I'd crashed so hard.  I actually feel better this morning, and I'm so thankful for that.  Has this been anyone elses experience after the steroids and without a taper off?  

Thanks in advance,
Angela

[angela5674]

Thanks!  :)  I am feeling better, thanks for the support!  Angela

[Momzilla]

Hi, Angela~

I loved the name of your post!

Hope you're feelingbetter.

Zilla*

[angela5674]

Thanks for the feedback...like I said, today has been a better day.  It feels good to feel like my brain is once again attached to my body!  

Quix- I know the "roids" aren't the same as the ones bodybuilders use.  I will definitely ask for a taper the next time as I must be extra sensitive or something.  My symtpoms have come back already...the vertigo and dizziness is gone, which is why I went on the solumed to begin with.  But I've had more "other" symptoms.  More numbness in my leg.  The left side of my face is acting crazy.  It will go numb, and then when the feeling comes back it burns.  I'd never had this before.  My eye pain is still there...a bit worse than it was before the solumed.  Nerve pain in my feet and hands.  I'd never had this before either.  Why would my new symptoms come up after the solumed?

Angela

[Quixotic1]

For most people on a 3 or 5 day course of steroids no taper is needed.  They come off just fine.  But, your doctor needs to know that you had an "emotional" crash the days after them and you mioght ask for an oral taper.  I do know that my neuro does a taper when people have a rebound resurgence of their symptoms right after finishing the 'roids.

We see that in some brittle asthmatics, too.  Uusally a 5 to 10 day course of oral steroids quiets down an asthma flare just fine and no taper is needed.  But, occasionally  the asthma comes back with a vengence when they're stopped and those kids always got a 2 week taper.

And even though we call them 'roids you know that these are not the anabolic steroids used by athletes and bodybuilders.  These are higher doses of the glucocorticoid steroids your body makes to stay alive.  If not I'll write up a little explanation.

Quix

[young at heart]

OH,THE ROID RAGE, I AM SO SORRY YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS.

I CAN RELATE TO THE RAGE,IT WILL PASS IN A FEW DAYS.

EVEN WITH THE TAPER OFF I GET THE ROID RAGE,USUALLY MY NEURO DOES THE 1000MGS FOR 5 DAYS THEN THE ORAL TAPER DOWN OF A 100MGS AND DOWN WARD BUT EVEN SO I GET THE RAGE.

ITS A GOOD MED TO HELP WITH FLAIR-UPS,BUT HAS ITS DRAW BACKS.

I TRY TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR FAMILY,THEY'LL UNDERSTAND.

THEY CAN EITHER MAKE YOU MEANER THAN A JUNK YARD DOG OR EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL

T-LYNN

[AMERS389]

I have never been on IV steroids but as a nurse I know we always like to taper our patients off their steroids, even the oral type. So it sounds like you could have used the taper, your body is just readjusting and I think you sound better today and it should be gone very soon. Hang in there...just apologize to your daughter and explain how steroids can make you so "CRANKY" ....Next time make sure you ask that they taper you off...God Bless Amers