Water Slap, Prednisone Worked, Should I Try More?

[nesto]

Hi lovely and brave people,

I'm posting this here, since I tried posting it in the treatments but couldn't make a new thread.

Let me introduce my story, I got Tinnitus after jumping into a river from a 5m height and slapping my right ear against the water. That was 19 days ago.

I went to the ENT 12 days after the onset, she prescribed me prednisone for 5 days (dosis of 100mg first day, tapering 20mg each day during five days). I had kind of a mild T (4/10), but the second and thir day on Prednisone my T became really low (2/10 or even 1/10). The treatment was finished yesterday, and my T came to a level closer to what it was before, maybe a bit lower (3,5 -4 /10).

Yesterday I had control with my ENT, she told me that the treatment was over, that I shouldn't take more pills and should try to not focus on my T, that it might or might not fade away with time. This was a bit disappointing for me, since prednisone seemed to be working.

That is why I wanted to ask you guys, should I got back to the GP to ask for a longer treatment on Prednisone ? Or just follow her advise and not doing anything else.

 

[Bill Bauer]

That's a tough one.

When did your T begin to get back to 3.5? Did it happen After you took your last Prednisone pill, or did it start happening sometime before you took that last pill?

 

[nesto]

It went from 2 to 3.5 the last day I took prednisone, it was two days ago, that day the dose was the lowest (20mg).
Right now my T is almost the same (3.5/10)

 

[Bobby B]

I think the ent is right
She did the right thing and gave you a high dosage
But prednisone has a very limited window of opportunity usually a few hours or 2-3 days
My ent told me 3 weeks after trauma will make no difference

Nevertheless I still took prednisone again a few weeks later and sure enough it made no lasting difference but I did experience a day or two of very low T during that time of

 

[Bill Bauer]

Seeing how it seems to have been having a positive effect, if I were you, I would ask for more prednisone,