Staying on the 'Roids

The pain hasn't really subsided, and the witching hour is still arriving in early afternoon.  [That's right about now.]  As part of the taper, I went without the cortizone on Tuesday, to only wake up Wednesday still in pain.  So the cortizone is definitely assisting with the pain or healing or covering something or...  As a result, the doctors decided to stay on a daily dose once a day for another three weeks to see how this affects the pouchand pain.

Thankfully, the pain is handled with only 1/2 percocet: I respond really well to those, but it takes about 45 minutes to kick in.  I struggle through what I can in hopes that it subsides.  The docs want to stop the percocet intake and use Motrin instead to handle the pain.

Followup is still for the 26th next week, so we shall see how the steroids continue until then and possibly get an idea for what we can do to find out what is causing these issues.  Unfortunately, this only further delays getting back to "normal", whatever in the hell that means nowadays.