After a restful Thanksgiving weekend, I wanted to discuss something with you. Steroid Tapers.
As you know, I have had a recent MS relapse. This one wasn’t one which I just wanted to “wait it out” for. I’ve done that with very minor bumps/relapses along the road during the recent years. In fact since switching drug treatment two years ago, my MS relapses had been more subtle and my MS has been more stable.
So until the last couple of weeks, I had not had a real-life,...
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