Coming off dinky dosepack, want an extension. should I ask?

I think it's a good idea to tell your doctor your symptoms and how they are coming back even before you get to the end of the treatment. I try not to tell my doctors what drugs I should be on - I like to give them room to use their medical education - hopefully they have better ideas than I do about what will be best for me long term. That said, if they seem to be giving you lots of short tapers relatively close together, I'd certainly not be shy about pointing out the pattern and asking if there were other options that might work better overall. If they seem to be thinking too hard, that's when I'd throw in a couple of options that "sound like they might work to me" -- like a medium dosage longer term or something like that. Of course, we all have different relationships with different doctors, so maybe you'd want to be more upfront about asking for what you want. I do think the rheumy would be the right doctor to talk to about this, I'm not clear on who prescribed the Medrol. Glad you are feeling a bit better,

Thanks, I'm going through so much now, found out my son is having tardative dyskinesia from some med they gave him after only a week and a half and he also has epilepsy and so instead of taking him off the medicine causing the involuntary jerking which can and usually becomes permanent, they put him on elavil. I have to gethim out of the hospital tomorrow. He has no insurance, and he just keeps telling me "don't say anything or they will keep me longer and put me on more stuff". So this stress has just shot me to a new high, and the steroids have been the only thing to calm me down. I'm a mess. I will call the rheumy and doc tomorrow.

Yes, I am. I'm better today. My son got out, still messed up mentally, needs counselling. Hope the meds kick in soon. He got the staples out of his head and his medicine that was stolen. I decided to wait until the fourth when I see my rheumie since today was better and its only a few days. I don't like to bother him, he is so  booked up and so good. I don't want to lose him. Besides, I can tough out a few days.

Thanks, I'm freaking out again, hopefully will get steroids again. My son is already trying to go back out with his buddies. I am ready to throw in the towel. I need good advice sometime. To tired now to think. My son won't give up until he's a total mess. He just can't learn, and thinks he's knows it all. He's just dumb about this stuff. The zyprexa and elavil don't seem to being doing much for him. He is really driving me nuts at times. Thanks for all the help. Rheumie an steroids I pray, will beg. I need them so so bad. Hopefully all will go well.