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Am trying to save $ on monthly prescriptions, so am thinking of dissolving a 10 mg prednisone tablet with hot water and filling up a nasacort bottle with it....
Am trying to save $ on monthly prescriptions, so am thinking of dissolving a 10 mg prednisone tablet with hot water and filling up a nasacort bottle with...
Am trying to save $ on monthly prescriptions, so am thinking of dissolving a 10 mg prednisone tablet with hot water and filling up a nasacort bottle with it....
I always wondered if this would work. Did you find out? Julie ... From: Connie Busick To: dysosmia@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:52 PM ...
well i saw my doc today. The good news is that my MRI came back normal, the bad news is my MRI came back normal. So I don't have any structural problem. She...
Hi Julie, I was without taste and smell for years. I dont have any blockages but I do have many allergies. So it must be swollen up there somewhere! I had been...
Hi Ian, Just curious...did prednisone work for you? Same as you, I do not have blockages but I do have non-allergic rhinitis (same as allergies). The...
Encouraging thoughts: 1) At one point in the past I did find a correlation between using ibuprofen and having brief periods of smelling. However, I presume...
Hello Lauren, Your doctor, like too many, seems over-dismissive. Never give up. It was viral then steroids will not likely help. The medication of choice for...
Hello Connie, Interesting idea, but I honestly think there might be more to it than that. Have you looked at alternative nasal applications, obtaining generic...
Hello Julie, Taking any steroid long-term carries its risks, but generally topically based ones much less so than oral or injected systemic steroids. Betnesol...
Am trying to save $ on monthly prescriptions, so am thinking of dissolving a 10 mg prednisone tablet with hot water and filling up a nasacort bottle with it....
Thank you everybody for all your encouraging thoughts! I forgot to mention that my doc is referring me to a neurologist. I have already been to ENT and...
Has anybody read this book? SMELL AND TASTE COMPLAINTS By Christopher H. Hawkes 2002. New York: Butterworth Heinemann Price $24.99. ISBN 0-7506-7287-0. Here's...
Lauren, I had a Virus that completley knocked out my smell and taste 15 years ago. It took a long while, about two years for some of it to come back. So my...
Hi I first and last posted in July 2004 having lost all taste and smell in winter 2002. Although my membership expired i have followed the discussions over the...
Hello Paul, Thank you very much indeed for your most interesting report. My situation is remarkably similar. I am currently using Flixonase but now majoring...
Hi adrian it is a shame your prescriber seems so inflexible. Maybe you could try a similar regimen to the one i described, slowly switching from Betnesol to...
Hello Paul, Actually my doctor is very accomodating; in fact he has never refused a request. However; I do not wish to push that relationship too far. In my...
Hello, all: I hope that I'm doing this correctly...posting a message, that is. I am writing because, no surprise, I am dealing with the loss of my senses of...
Hello Philip, I can relate as can many others; yours is indeed a familiar situation. It is at times like this when I wish we had the forum I keep offering...
Hi Philip, The feelings you so poignantly describe are common to us all. We all deal with the grief of loss in differently ways. Hopefully, because you still...
Folks: Thanks to all who replied so quickly. It was uplifting this morning to read some positive comments. Blessings to you all! For Adrian: my GP did put...
Hello Phil, Thanks for the update. It sounds possible then that your issue might well be viral, precipitated by your preceding illness. Mick is our resident...
Philip, My heart goes out to you. You're right! It's devastating and depressing condition and almost impossibly for someone to understand. I also lost my taste...
Actually, approximately eight months into my treatment with Theo-24, Dr. Henkin had me back in the office for three days in a row and treated me with...
I once tried crushing prednisone and snorting it. That did not seem to help me, but then I am not totally convinced that any intranasal application of steroid...