First there was sudden Hearing loss in one ear. The doctor prescribed Prednisone - 4 weeks of really high doses of Prednisone - which would gradually taper down by the fourth week...and Prilosec to protect his digestive tract ....Omeprazole is the generic name...( The Prednisone might have helped to restore hearing if the hearing loss was related to a virus. Apparently it wasn't a virus)
The doctor also prescribed an MRI. It took our insurance awhile to approve the MRI and for the MRI to be scheduled...Meanwhile, he was taking Prednisone and having side effects such as very edgy irritable behavior, restlessness, insomnia, rapid breathing that prevented him from using his C pap machine. (he has sleep apnea) When the MRI finally indicated he had an Acoustic Neuroma and we met with the doc to discuss it, the doctor said it was okay stop the Prednisone right away, even though he only had 2 days left to go to complete the four weeks.
PROBLEM:
A week after he stopped the Prednisone, he got itchy red welts on some of his body that we thought could be hives. At first he got them every other day...usually after showering. We thought it was related to laundry detergent or fabric softener but then he still got the hives after using fragrance free detergent and no fabric softener..and he has no food allergies... OK, so almost three weeks after stopping the heavy dosages of Prednsione he got really bad hives. He had jogged outside in really cold weather. Then he got bad hives the next day- after taking a hot shower. It happened again... then again... The itching was really intense. A couple times he took Benadryl to relieve the itching but this is like a sedative and he needs to feel alert for his job.
Did anyone else have this issue? If so, what did you do? Thanks for replying.
