To anyone concerned:
Make sure you get Pfizer Medrol and not some cheap Prednisone knock off from your local pharmacy. A can of these A-brand pills is only about 20 euro's. You need a prescription, cannot be bought over the counter.
I had Prednisone Mylan and some other 3rd party labels with different sizes (5mg / 20 mg) from my Dutch pharmacy. Each quantity was it's own brand and color of the pill. So taking different brands of pills if for example I had to take 55 mg it was 30+20+5. Taking these 3 brands at the same time gave me nausea, vertigo and light in the head, increased body head (no fever) but just oozes of heat, and weird cramps in my fingers. Most of these side effects are gone now but it isn't cool.
With the Pfizer only stuff: so far almost NO SIDE EFFECTS. Only some sweaty hands. I know this is N=1 and this could be different for you but at least take this into consideration. I'm struggling too and this is just my free info.
Please do take a stomach protector also (small pills before breakfast). Prednisone is a hormone and should be taken in the morning.
My taper down scheme is - from Belgian ENT.
3 days 64 mg (2 pills)
3 days 32 mg (1 pill)
3 days 16 mg (1/2 pill)
3 days 8 mg (1/4 pill)
So 12 days.
Massachusetts Eye and ear says 16 days of high dose in order to combat sudden deafness.
https://www.masseyeandear.org/for-p...ation/diseases-and-conditions/sudden-deafness
They also state that direct injection into the ear drum is an option but this is not done in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Netherlands indicated that it isn't statistically different from oral intake:
https://richtlijnendatabase.nl/rich...tympanale_corticosteroiden_gehoorverlies.html
But yeah, when is something statistically different if treatment varies from patient to patient?
Anything shorter than 5 days of prednisone will not help enough as there are flare ups and downs in T volume.
Make sure you get Pfizer Medrol and not some cheap Prednisone knock off from your local pharmacy. A can of these A-brand pills is only about 20 euro's. You need a prescription, cannot be bought over the counter.
I had Prednisone Mylan and some other 3rd party labels with different sizes (5mg / 20 mg) from my Dutch pharmacy. Each quantity was it's own brand and color of the pill. So taking different brands of pills if for example I had to take 55 mg it was 30+20+5. Taking these 3 brands at the same time gave me nausea, vertigo and light in the head, increased body head (no fever) but just oozes of heat, and weird cramps in my fingers. Most of these side effects are gone now but it isn't cool.
With the Pfizer only stuff: so far almost NO SIDE EFFECTS. Only some sweaty hands. I know this is N=1 and this could be different for you but at least take this into consideration. I'm struggling too and this is just my free info.
Please do take a stomach protector also (small pills before breakfast). Prednisone is a hormone and should be taken in the morning.
My taper down scheme is - from Belgian ENT.
3 days 64 mg (2 pills)
3 days 32 mg (1 pill)
3 days 16 mg (1/2 pill)
3 days 8 mg (1/4 pill)
So 12 days.
Massachusetts Eye and ear says 16 days of high dose in order to combat sudden deafness.
https://www.masseyeandear.org/for-p...ation/diseases-and-conditions/sudden-deafness
They also state that direct injection into the ear drum is an option but this is not done in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Netherlands indicated that it isn't statistically different from oral intake:
https://richtlijnendatabase.nl/rich...tympanale_corticosteroiden_gehoorverlies.html
But yeah, when is something statistically different if treatment varies from patient to patient?
Anything shorter than 5 days of prednisone will not help enough as there are flare ups and downs in T volume.
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