Always great to learn more about our drugs and you stated that prednisone causes excessive blood loss - When I was a kid and taking pred, I sliced my leg open on a side of a open fence gate riding a horse bareback and I had on shorts (wasn’t that much blood0 . Would like to find if you have more info on pred causing excessive blood loss as I never heard this and would like to learn more. I’ve read lots of liturature on our cortisones throughout the years and always more for me to learn as I’m on the journey of becoming a nurse. I always think lots to learn and would like info about prednisone causing excessive blood loss.

Drinking? As long as it doesn’t become a sport or hobby then it maybe Ok. But, I do think that we eventually get dehydrated quicker than others. I used to drink enough at times to pass out (party girl)but these days I’ll drink only once in a blue moon and besides it really got way to expensive as in I paid $6.50 ? FOR THIS ! I would down the pred at the time with last call becuase I knew that I wouldn’t remember or be passed out on the cab ride home and not take it.

 

Emotions? I wear them on my sleeve and can be moody, intense at times but I also have hashimoto’s thyroiditis and when it wasn’t being treated? ....errr does things heck even with taking the synthroid  : ) I never cry but I tend to vent (loud raised voice) and express these days and I feel great  afterwards but it is good to clearly state feelings as well.

I do have patience and empathy in there as well as being aggreesive and assertive- I’ve made grown men jump and cry. I think that I’m pretty good in stressful situations and like to find solutions for them. Part of my job at this time period is to help people with situations that are causing them stress and I feel I handle that in a calm manner.

I had this one nurse write that I was calm, firm, and cool in what was a stressful situation but on the flip side : ) If I haven’t had enough sleep or food and I think yous  ain’t be getting wheres I’s be a coming from and I think you should then I have a terrible temper that will come up but it goes away just as quick. I tend to expect more from Endos and get angry when that doesn’t happen? that rath comes out but it isn’t personal at them but actions that I know they can be better . I like the fast movement in resteraunts but sometimes find supermarkets a stressful place that I don’t want to be...maybe it’s the lights?

I’m not one to cry but everyone is different and I think that I try to deal with stress because instinctive? I know that I’ll zap out (run ill) if I don’t. The only time that i did cry was when this Endo Nurse Practioner decides to put her stethascope on the cancer (gyno)  radiation field becuase I’m telling her the radiation is burning and later she was telling me is thought blockage. Even the cancer docs didn’t put a stethascope on that field. I asked her to stop and she would and I asked her what are you doing and she had no answer- I could of pushed her awy or bashed her acroos the top of her head with my fist but I don’t becuase I really like my endo and cops in that area are really hot so no jail for that. She thought I was crying from being emotionally and did say sorry for what she did- I bet she is a good diabetes nurse because after something stressful I try to look at a good point plus she isn’t a cancer nurse. The endo and his office where  Stress is being a kid and having a bunch of residents learn on ya for CAH. and those voiding systograms - I don’t have to potty and nope don’t want a sucker.

I think stress and emotions go away with more verbal comunication.  

People say that I have a strong personality but I don’t see it and feel lesser because I don’t think they have their emotions up and active. Some people read intense as being angry but they’ve never seen me angry : ) I have a German ethnic Background and don’t think my temper has everything to do with CAH after I saw a German couple go at each other.

 

A couple a days ago, I avoided a car accident and I think that was because of the way I deal with stress - I didn’t get scared but aggressivly flipped that whell in an effort to save me and my car - it worked and right after that I did have a happy tear and a little choked up patted my car and told it good job.  

I hope somehow what I wrote helped you.

Aimee