http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2007/05/20/tired-and-cant-get-no-respect/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2007/05/20/tired-and-cant-get-no-respect/#comment-1011 Rosalind Joffe Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:02:07 +0000 http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2007/05/20/tired-and-cant-get-no-respect/#comment-1011 Ugh. Any of these drugs can do this to us. We need them and they can help us but they can also wreck havoc. We have to be careful how we describe it though - others can use it or misinterpret. Rosalind Ugh. Any of these drugs can do this to us. We need them and they can help us but they can also wreck havoc. We have to be careful how we describe it though - others can use it or misinterpret. Rosalind

]]> http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2007/05/20/tired-and-cant-get-no-respect/#comment-993 TW Sun, 20 May 2007 23:21:44 +0000 http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2007/05/20/tired-and-cant-get-no-respect/#comment-993 I personally lose patience with myself on prednisone. The brain fog, the tiredness, the inability to sleep, the lack of focus. I don't think anyone else minds half as much as I do...though I did have an odd moment last week at work where my boss and two staff gave me the "huh?" look as I tried to find the words to ask a simple question in the midst of fog. Of course, then there is the other person I work with who told someone else that she thought I was mad at her because I didn't respond quite right to her (in the bathroom of all places). Sigh. I really don't want the empathy, but I was quick to say the "its the prednisone" to the person who told me that the other person thought I was mad at her. I personally lose patience with myself on prednisone. The brain fog, the tiredness, the inability to sleep, the lack of focus. I don’t think anyone else minds half as much as I do…though I did have an odd moment last week at work where my boss and two staff gave me the “huh?” look as I tried to find the words to ask a simple question in the midst of fog. Of course, then there is the other person I work with who told someone else that she thought I was mad at her because I didn’t respond quite right to her (in the bathroom of all places). Sigh. I really don’t want the empathy, but I was quick to say the “its the prednisone” to the person who told me that the other person thought I was mad at her.

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