I think Crystal would probably be better to answer this but it looks like another form of prednisone to me. Still a very very low dose for someone with NKC's, I'm on 20 mg prednisone for inflammation, I don't even have NKC's. My diet helps with inflammation and the D & B vits that I take have studies showing they take down inflammation too. Crystal I believe was on 25mg and on an anti-inflammatory no sugar/salt diet too. When I looked up Metypred, it has reactions with estrogens, it "weaken(s) the immunosuppressive action methylprednisolone" when you're on estrogens - just good to be aware of that if you do use the prescription/dosing from Reprofit.
so I did a little digging and there's a Pegasus study being done in my city. So they accepted me as a candidate today, will administer the test at exactly 10 weeks (a vial of blood) and know if my baby has anything wrong one week later. Normally women pay $900 here for this test. The usuall process is to find a place that will send bloodwork to the USA when the nauchal translucency scan comes back with high chances of Down's Syndrome. The blood test avoids an invasive amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. Both pose risks to fetus.
.Last Friday I asked my doc about chromosomal testing and she shrugged saying that if the nauchal translucency scan comes back in high ratio of having Down's Syndrome or 3 other similar defects we'd talk about it after May when I return from my vacation
I feel so relieved, just to not have that stress of more $$ for more tests. We were going to have the results from the nauchal test right before we leave with a potential of stress over unclear results (imagine 1 in 10 for Down's Syndrome possibility??) hanging over our heads.
When things are crappy, they really are terrible and when things work out, sometimes ithe ouch just keeps going
