which is more important? recovering from strep throat, or your balls being little for a couple more days? they put you on the prednisone for a reason(granted, I am in complete disagreement with some things DR's do... but if he/she put you on prednisone, and an antibiotic, it is probably because that is the best treatment for what is wrong with you... I'm taking a shot in the dark at the strep(it's a common one that both medications are used... for a reason!) that being said, you may have royally screwed yourself... you see how there are 5 pills for one day, then 5, then 4, then 3 then 2, then1... that is so that it doesn't adversely effect your adrenals, and they begin reproduction of cortisol levels, as the prednisone is tapered off of... now, you may get even more sick.. since you decided to just cold turkey the corticosteroid treatment without taper........ There is a very good reason for certain things in medicine.. tapering cortico's is highly important!!!! you DO NOT WANT TO SHUT DOWN YOUR ADRENAL GLANDS!~!!! IT CAN BE 100X WORSE THAN NOT HAVING ENOUGH ENDOGENOUS TEST!!! MY DR'S SHUT MY ADRENALS DOWN, AND THEY HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR OVER 4 MONTHS.. IT IS FUCKING HELL!!!! I'D RATHER HAVE LOW TEST ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!! I WAKE UP BRUISED FROM HEAD TO TOE, JUST FROM THE PRESSURE ON WHATEVER PART OF MY BODY I SLEPT ON!! MY NECK LOOKS LIKE IT HAS A SOFTBALL GROWING OUT THE BACK OF IT, FROM THE HERNIATED DISC, AND ALL THE TISSUE AROUND IT SWELLING WITHOUT END, JUST FROM BEING A LITTLE COCKEYED ON MY PILLOW!!!
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE SOMETHING FUN TO LOOK FORWARD TO??? NOW THEY ARE PUMPING ME FULL OF SO MUCH CORTICO'S(AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT) CAUSE THERE IS NO ENDOCRINOLOGIST WITHIN 400MILES OF WHERE I LIVE, AND THEY HAVE TO GET THE SWELLING DOWN SOMEHOW... AND SO I CAN KEEP DOWN SO MUCH AS WATER.. IT HAS DESTROYED MY INTERNAL WORKINGS, I PUKE ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, I CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OPEN FOR 20 MINUTES, I AM IN HORRID PAIN, AND AT ANY GIVEN POINT IN TIME, HALF MY BODY IS SWOLLEN!!! SOUND FUN? NOW THEY HAVE TO KEEP PUMPING ME FULL OF THESE CORTICO'S TIL THE ENDOCRINOLOGIST CAN SEE ME... JUST SO EVERY TENDON, LIGAMENT, ETC.. DOESN'T RUPTURE DUE TO THE SWELLIND SURROUNDING IT... YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MUCH CORTISONE DOES TO YOUR HARD EARNED MUSCLE... SAY BYE BYE... IT MELTS IT OFF YOUR BODY!!! AND THE DR'S DONT' GIVE A FLYING SHIT!!!
YOU'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT TESTICULAR ATROPHY, YOU MAY HAVE CEASED PRODUCTION OF ONE OR MORE ADRENAL HORMONES.. NOW YOU NEED TO GO SEE YOUR DR, TELL HIM HOW STUPID YOU WERE, HAVE HIM TEST YOU, AND IF NEED BE, GET YOU TO AN EDOCRINOLOGIST TO GIVE YOU SHOTS OF ACTH TO KICK CORTISOL BACK IN!!!
IF I COULD FIND A BOTTLE OF ACTH, I WOULD GIVE MY LEFT, AND RIGHT, ATROPHIED TESTICLES FOR IT... SO I COULD POSSIBLY HAVE SOME CHANCE OF GETTING MY ADRENALS KICKED BACK IN BEFORE THESE DR'S RUIN ME FOR LIFE!!!
QUIT BEING STUPID!!! PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN YOU GREAT ADVICE, AND YOU KEEP GOING BACK AND FORTH(EVEN AFTER HEAVY TOOK THE TIME TO ANSWER MULTIPLE QUESTIONS AND COMPLETELY GUIDE YOU THROUGH EVERYTHING YOUU SHOULD DO(THAT SHIT GETS OLD SOMETIMES BRO!!!) FOR YOU TO JUST GO START QUESTIONING HIS ADVICE, RIGHT AFTER YOU AGREED TO FOLLOW IT... PICK SOMETHING AND STICK WITH IT!!!! 20 PEOPLE WILL GIVE YOU 20 METHODS... PICK ONE!!! STICK WITH IT.... DONT PICK WHAT YOU LIKE OR IS CONVENIENT FROM EACH, AND COMBINE THEM ALL.. THEY ARE ALL LAID OUT A PARTICULAR WAY FOR A REASON... NOT SO YOU CAN PICK AND CHOOSE, AND HAVE NO REAL PLAN!!!
TAKE HEAVY'S ADVICE.. IT'S TOO LATE TO GO BACK TO HCG(YOU WILL SHUT DOWN YOUR LH SIGNAL IF YOU DO AT THIS POINT!!!) WAIT IT OUT.. LIKE HEAVY SAID.. AND GO TELL YOUR DOC WHAT AN IDIOT YOU WERE STOPPIGN THE CORTICO'S MID TAPER!! YOU MAY NEED SOMETHING DONE ABOUT THAT NOW!