Go, Jess, go! Baby~ma!

Job~ma to Debet.

Oh, Debet, that sucks. I hope you easily find a much better job.

I started the prednisone today, and discovered that one of the side effects is difficulty sleeping, so here I am, exhausted and yet wide awake. I would share the codeine with AmyLiz, but I can't. Nope. Must keep it all for myself. Cause I'm selfish that way.

I'm starting to feel like I'm never going to get better. My rant about this and the crappy doctor and drug interactions listed on websites has turned out longer than expected, so I'm white fonting it. It's not gross, is just too. damn. long. Freaked myself out a bit, because I started to take some melatonin to sleep, then saw that it shouldn't be taken with prednisone, so took the sublingual pill out, then started spazzing about what the interaction might be, so got online to check the interweb. Sounds like the teeny-tiny amount of melatonin I had was probably no big deal, but in discovering that, I saw the big lists of things I should have discussed with my doctor, which he never mentioned (anyone know what the issue is with grapefruit and prednisone?), and big lists of side effects that apparently warrant contacting your doctor right away, a fair amount of which I had before I started on it. Ok, I was planning on contacting my own doctor anyway, so I suppose that doesn't really matter. But while my doctor is wonderful, her office is of teh suck, and I'm not really sure how to put the problem so that I get an appointment with my doctor sometime this year while not getting an appointment with the unhelpful PA. And then I feel horrid complaining, because I have friends with much more severe health issues, and here I am complaining about this.

One question: The stuff I read seemed to say that the prednisone should be taken with food at specific times, but what I have says to take it before food and at bedtime. But since I've been feeling crummy, I don't have a specific schedule. So should I take it at specific times, and have some food then? Or should I take it before meals, regardless of when they are?

The prednisone will be easier on your tummy if you take it with food--or a glass of milk works really well as well.

They have you taking at bedtime???? That's craziness. Of course it's gonna mess with your sleep. I always take it in the morning. Are you taking it twice a day?

Today it was supposed to be two in the morning, one before lunch, one before dinner, and two at bedtime. One pill a day gets subtracted for the next five days. Unless it's for the next six days. I haven't slept since about 11:30 yesterday morning, and my math skills weren't all that great to begin with.

Yeah...that's a typical taper. Call and see if you can take it all at once. Or at least all before like 3pm. Tell them it made you have trouble sleeping.

Who prescribed this? Your regular doctor? ER?

I was checking in, hoping for baby news!

Okay, back to work for now...but I'm coming back shortly

Almost ready to start pushing!

12 minutes ago!

Push, Jess, psuh!

Huh. I posted a reply to vw, but it appears not to have shown up. It was prescribed by the urgent care doctor, since my doctor was out of the office and I've been unthrilled with her PA.

eta: Gonna try the sleep thing again.

Push, Jess, Push! Come on, baby!

Get some sleep, libkitty, and let me know if you have any other questions.

Push 'im out! Push 'im out! Waaaaaaaaay out!!