Swelled with inflammation - rambling | Arthritis Information

I have a question...

Why is it that even on this prednisone flare taper, I am on 30mg of pred and then taper down 5mg every 3 days, that when it is hours before my next dose that I will swell with inflammation? But when I wake up the next day, the swelling is down or even gone in some joints?

I just do not understand this. My hands & fingers have been better since starting the pred flare taper, but between the pills at dinner and the pills before bed time, they will swell with inflammation, along with some of my other joints, like knees wrists, shoulders, and some joints I just do not care to take the "swell inventory".

I am just miffed by it all. I would think 30mg of pred would be enough to at least control the inflammation and swelling. It use to be anyways.

Oh well... hubby says he does not know, so thought I would just post about it.

Ok... also... I have noticed since starting the pred flare taper, that when my fingers swell with inflammation before my next dose, that the joint below the nail is swelled as well. I am not sure they swelled like that before or not, never really paid it much attention, was always just happy to see my knuckles and make a fist.

But I think I remember reading somewhere that RA does not effect that joint, and PA does. I might be wrong... I have read a lot of stuff and my memory is for crap, so... I am probably wrong. LOL!

I think that sometimes it's just Murphy's Law!! Crazy stuff sometimes!

I don't I've ever had the knuckle right below my nail swell; I'm having a really hard time with my neck, elbows and hands right now, but I think it's been the severe change in weather pressure.

I hope you're able to find the info you're looking for!

~Audrey
Thanks Audrey. I hope you get to feeling a little better soon.

I think my swelling is due to the hurricanes and weather changes. At least that is what I have been trying to tell myself anyways.

I just hate it when I get told of a new problem. Since the neurologist told me of whatever it was he said was wrong with my hands, arms and legs. I am now aware of the numbness. Before I did not even realize they were numb. Now, I know which of my fingers are numb and my toes too. They are not totally numb, they are just very desensitized. I can feel pressure, but not feel feel. Like I can press my nail into one of my fingers and feel the pressure, but cannot feel my nail digging into my finger until I start to feel the bone.

My right big toe... yeah it is really really numb. It is so numb that it throws me off balance sometimes, because my toe does not feel like it is there.

I wonder if all the chronic inflammation is what has caused this numbness or if it is a pinched nerve like the neurologist thinks it is. I have not went back to him for the results of my MRI he had done on my L-spine and C-spine, because I am afraid it is a pinched nerve and even more afraid of how they fix that problem.

But some of my symptoms do point towards sciatic nerve.