Side Effects Update (4)

Ok, let's get on with it. 

Legs - like lead weights at times, difficult to walk upstairs. I manage but it's tiring. 

Skin - it's behaving at the moment.

Hair - no additional hairloss, lots of regrowth. 

Diabetes - being looked at and adjusted. 

Eyelashes - one side still has very curly eyelashes.

Sleep - I am sleeping. A lot. 

Appetite - very good at the moment, eating lots of food I probably shouldn't. 

Stick - The stick and I stick together. It helps. 

This post is following on from this one. 

Legs

Okay, this is interesting. Since I started this journey way too long ago I've had a heavy, cumbersome feeling in my thighs. Walking upstairs has been difficult later in the day - I've previously described it as like wearing a diving suit and being held back by the weight of it. 

Every Tuesday I've cut back by 0.5mg of the steroid I'm taking - and one of its side effects is making your leg muscles feel as I've described above.

This week I'm down to 0.5mg, the lowest I've been on since all this started. Last night I went up to bed and made it upstairs like I used to - there was no heavy feeling in my legs. It felt normal - pre-tumour normal. I got to the top of the stairs and felt like things were how they used to be.

If things go back to how they were (which is possible), I'm glad that I could feel 'normal' again so quickly on a lower dose of steroid - that makes me wonder how much my blood sugars could be affected too. 

I've described this as being like the triangle with taking photos* - you change one bit of medication and the other two parts need to be looked at as well so things don't get really wonky. 

I know this is a positive thing overall but doesn't really change anything, I'm taking the positives though, it's a good mental health thing. 

*technical term there