About 10 years ago, my MIL was on a long-term low-dose steroid [View all]
to deal with something in her blood labs report. At the time, I was the PR director at a small community hospital so I asked the lab manager what the high # meant. He said it signified inflammation somewhere in the body. But, given that my MIL was a senior citizen, that could have meant basic arthritis.
Regardless, her doc insisted on her staying on this low dose steroid.
She came to visit us in FL, from NJ, for a couple of weeks after she was months into this medication. We immediately noticed a difference in her - she was much more high-strung than usual, angry and argumentative. She was not herself.
I talked to that lab manager after we talked to her about her behavior. He's not a doctor but, given his experience, didn't understand why she'd be on this steroid for so long. He noted that, of course, it could cause these changes. Plus, her lab #s hadn't changed.
She called her doc and said she wanted off the steroid. He weaned her off it and within a few days, she was back to her old self.
I am relaying this incident because she was on a low dose of a much less intense steroid and we saw the changes in her.
IMPOTUS is heading for a big fall.
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