My mother has taken D/D before. It makes her angry, jittery, and sad. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, for a stereotactic radiosurgery, she had to take four four-MG doses over a period of eighteen hours. Only after this did I learn that the tapering off would take forty-six days. Even aside from my mother's problem with D/D, this strikes me as an absurdly long time.
Why must you taper off the steroid Decadron/Dexamethasone rather than simply stop taking it?
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- 8 Nov 2012 by timot
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- 26 Nov 2012
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- decadron, dexamethasone, steroid
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Marvell
26 Nov 2012
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I called the local doctor who's a partner of the one who did the surgery, and he cut the amount Mom had to take approximately in half. Mom reacts so badly to the Dexamethasone that I wonder if withdrawal would be any worse than taking it. Anyway, the tapering-off period ended a few days ago so this problem has passed.
I forgot to say thanks for the information. Thanks!