Methylprednisolone dose pack starts with six pills on the first day and then you taper it down to one pill on the sixth day and then quit.  It's the sort of thing your body can get accustomed to and you might suffer for it if you take it a while and then stop (Addison's disease being a possible outcome: that is, it's a corticosteroid, and its ( Read more... )

I had got to the point where I was not only pain-free but it felt actively good to use my legs. I forgot the exercises for less than a week. Weeks and weeks of exercising again later the pain was still getting worse to the point where it was about as bad as it was before physical therapy. So I went back. The wonderful physical therapist did a ( Read more... )

If you've been with me for a while you know that the other time I came to Prague, Frank and I went to an opera in the beautiful and nationalist old Narodni Divadlo (National Theater) whose motto is "We are a nation!" The opera at that time was this thing about how the Czechs went to Osaka and, against great odds and giant Canadian and Russian ice ( Read more... )