This morning 6/13/20, I just took my last dose of Decadron. I was only still on this drug because of a rash reaction to the stem cell engraftment that you can read about in "Part 6: BEAM Chemo" of my blog. As with most courses of steroids, they started me on a higher daily dose and tapered it off over time.
My prescribed dosage was 16 mg per day on 6/2/20, and then tapered down every 3 days, to 12 mg on 6/5/20, then to 8 mg on 6/9/20, then to 4 mg on 6/11/20, and then done on 6/14/20.
In learning of the half-life of Decadron, I became very interested in calculating and plotting how much Decadron has been in my system each day since I started my latest prescription on 6/2/20.
This was a perfect opportunity to spend a Saturday morning doing something “fun” in the name of SCIENCE!
So happy Saturday! And without further ado you can gaze over the Decadron levels in my system for the month of June. To my own surprise, today there is still 50% of the "peak" level of Decadron in my system.
Over the next few days the levels will taper off fast and I suspect my irritability will improve greatly.
Rest assured, my mother will miss our fierce arguments. 😇
Link to spreadsheet: Dexamethazone Level over Time
