Flynnal
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2012
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Well, the steroids are working temporarily at least. I'm on day 6 now, day 3 and 4 were 200mg, yesterday was 150mg, just bolted 100mg this morning.
Taper seems to be going OK, no real nasty effects as yet. Will go down to 75 and then 50 the next day, then 25. Then I'll do 20, 15, 10, and 5, the finally 2.5mg for two days.
Next stop is a triple dose dexamethasone shot into each ear drum directly. Both ears, left one first.
After that it's 500mg prednisolone per day for 3 days (two bottles worth of Panafcortelone). That's a lot of steroid and it's probably going to fuck me up in some way or another, but I guess at this point there's not much else I can do except maybe wait for some miracle cure.
If I had done this earlier there might (just might) have been a chance I'd be telling a different story today, but steroids only work about 30% of the time I'm told for stuff like this and the recovery is only complete about half those cases. For more serious hearing loss they seem to be a lot more effective, like up to 60%, but because this is considered subclinical the data isn't that great on the efficacy of these drugs. So my chances of treating it successfully even right at the onset, would have been around 15% at best.
Life sucks. And then we die.
Taper seems to be going OK, no real nasty effects as yet. Will go down to 75 and then 50 the next day, then 25. Then I'll do 20, 15, 10, and 5, the finally 2.5mg for two days.
Next stop is a triple dose dexamethasone shot into each ear drum directly. Both ears, left one first.
After that it's 500mg prednisolone per day for 3 days (two bottles worth of Panafcortelone). That's a lot of steroid and it's probably going to fuck me up in some way or another, but I guess at this point there's not much else I can do except maybe wait for some miracle cure.
If I had done this earlier there might (just might) have been a chance I'd be telling a different story today, but steroids only work about 30% of the time I'm told for stuff like this and the recovery is only complete about half those cases. For more serious hearing loss they seem to be a lot more effective, like up to 60%, but because this is considered subclinical the data isn't that great on the efficacy of these drugs. So my chances of treating it successfully even right at the onset, would have been around 15% at best.
Life sucks. And then we die.