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The steroid is helping, and I was boticeably better today than yesterday, but "better" doesn't equal either "well" or "as good as six weeks ago." ( details, mostly for my reference )
That's how I'm doing 36 hours (2 40-mg doses) into the five-day steroid pulse, with three still to come. Also two days of the doxycycline, which is a seven-day prescription.
I have now talked to the nurse at the Beth Israel MS clinic. First she told me that the steroids might benefit me for as much as a couple of years, which is good to know. Then she said something about masking while on the steroids, because "never went away, we just started ignoring it," and told me that half their in-patient beds at Beth Israel are still being occupied by covid patients. I assured her that I am still masking almost everywhere I can, because I know that. It's good to have another clinician who isn't pretending that covid doesn't matter, since all too many are. (The fact that not only are a lot of doctors ignoring covid, some of them are actively telling people not to mask, is another part of why I'm still going over to Somerville to see Carmen.)
That's how I'm doing 36 hours (2 40-mg doses) into the five-day steroid pulse, with three still to come. Also two days of the doxycycline, which is a seven-day prescription.
I have now talked to the nurse at the Beth Israel MS clinic. First she told me that the steroids might benefit me for as much as a couple of years, which is good to know. Then she said something about masking while on the steroids, because "never went away, we just started ignoring it," and told me that half their in-patient beds at Beth Israel are still being occupied by covid patients. I assured her that I am still masking almost everywhere I can, because I know that. It's good to have another clinician who isn't pretending that covid doesn't matter, since all too many are. (The fact that not only are a lot of doctors ignoring covid, some of them are actively telling people not to mask, is another part of why I'm still going over to Somerville to see Carmen.)