Hope you can respond soon, I heading out of town

I've been on 20mg of pred now for a few weeks, dropped from 40mg to 30mg now at 20mg. I was doing good,(never remission but no blood)  but the last couple of days I dropped to 10mg because I was taking Valtrex for a cold sore and didn't want so much medication in my system and I tried to call pharmacy to see if I can take together and they were closed and I didn't want my cold sore to get out of control, so I backed down on pred. Today I didn't take Valtrex, and back to 20mg of pred. I'm flaring big time and tomorrow I leave for a flight. Any suggestion where I might feel comfortable leaving on a flight to get my flare to calm down?

Thanks,

Linda

Rowasa enemas...when I came down off of pred the symptoms come back. I won't even bother with it again.

Linda -

I am sorry to say it but you've been flaring for a while - I don't think 10mg a week is a good taper schedule for you. You shouldn't aim for so-so, you want to feel rock solid. I felt like if I tapered when my symptoms were apparent, I would end up getting worse and worse until I was back to square one. This happened to me when I tapered down during my last flare up, I got down to 2.5mg rocky the whole way and I flared badly at 2.5mg and had to go back up to 40mg and start 6mp. Are you considering an immunosupressant? I don't know anything about pred + valtrex. Did you search on google? I don't think you should drop the dose of prednisone out of the blue like that, you need to stay steady on a dose until you feel stable enough to taper. Is there another pharmacy you can call to ask about the 2 medications? I agree with sherbear, enemas can be very helpful. I was using cortifoam while I tapered pred but what I think really got me off prednisone and my UC stable is 6mp. I hope you're feeling better.