doing better

hello all,

i started flaring in late august after having my baby in june. i think the stress of childbirth combined with the motrin i was taking for the pain, the excessive roughage i was eating and finally the lack of sleep that comes with being a new mommy put me into the flare. i tried to take care of it with 30mg of pred but had to go up to 60mg and started taking imuran to control the flare. i seem to be getting better (no s/s) but i won't consider myself home-free until i am off the pred and remain in remission. i have experienced rebound symptoms after tapering a few times and have had to increase my dosage.

i am now down to 35mg of pred and hope to get off completely in six weeks.it is hard to be patient and taper slowly, especially when the symptoms are gone, but i have to do it this way and be happy that i am at least on 35mg of pred and not 60mg.

just checking in. this forum helps keep me accountable to my health.

in peace and love,

becky

i had to stop breastfeeding when i started imuran, unfortunately.

Glad your feeling better. I take Motrin too sometimes and I know I shouldn't. I get headaches that nothing else seems to help and I don't take just 400 mg of Motrin. I take double that but it helps.