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COVID vaccines and neuropathy

Neuropathy | Last Active: Nov 14, 2023 | Replies (2164)

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@littlenoise and @mcd2021 My doc used 40 mg for 7 days, then 20 mg for 7 days of prednisone. This has been my pattern for years, except minor asthma flares, which are 20 mg for 7 days. According to both primary and pain doc, no "taper" is required for short courses of prednisone (less than a month).

I will take quite a bit of vaccine discomfort over Covid or flu - I have compromised lungs (asthma & bronchiectasis) and inflammatory arthritis - last bout of flu landed me with pneumonia, then a year of bronchitis followed by several other long infections, 18 months of antibiotic therapy which made me very ill, all of which morphed into chronic pain that took another year to get under control...
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Many thanks for sharing your prednisone dosages. I'm wondering if the course of prednisone that your doctor has prescribed for your inflammatory reactions to vaccines might have been helpful for my symptoms. My doctor gave me a Medrol pack early on which is a much lower, short term, tapered dose. It didn't help at all. I might mention this at my next appointment just to see what he thinks about it. It sounds like you have had some horrible ongoing health issues and I'm glad you are doing better now. I too was willing to accept some vaccine discomfort over Covid - but within reason. I sure wasn't prepared for the significant, long term adverse effects I have been dealing with for four months after just 1 shot. This craziness is way more than I ever expected and I pray it eventually settles down.