Little Afternoon break here…been very busy today and accomplishing alot!  Feel great!  

Last Friday I had called into the Dr as I was having alot of face pain and headache and thought I had a sinus infection.  My treating allergist was not in and the one covering jsut increased my predisone as he felt it was immflamation.  I swear I will never get off of predisone!   So I took 30 mg again all weekend.  Today I called in to my Dr for my weekly checkin.   He decided that he wants to put me on antibiotics to rule out the sinus infections.  Yeah…thank you!   He put me back on a taper again and I will check in with him next week.  So for the next week I will be doing a 30 odd day./ 10mg even day taper.   I hope this works.  I would love to get off this medication!

As for the side effects of the med…we all know weight gain is a biggy!   I am happy to say in the last month even on the meds I have lost 4 pounds.   Which is great.  I still plan on joining weight watchers with my friends at work to hopefully continue to lose the added med related weight.  I still would like to lose another 15 pounds.   I know it is not a great amount, but it has been difficult to take off with my health being so poor for the last 4 months. 

Just heard from the garage about the van.  Some valve (EGR) is malfunctioning and is putting exhaust back into the engine.  So I am going to have them fix that to a tune of just under $600.00.     I will have to do some fancy foot work with the budget to make this work for the month.  ARGH!   Always something.