my husband is on steroids for about 14 months because of brain edema after brain irradiation due to brain tumor . he was hospitalized due to pulmonary embolism and was taking dexamethazone 8 mg for 6 weeks then moved to prednisolone 40 mg for about 3 weeks ,started to decrease prednisolone by 5 mg every other day,he is tachycardic hypotensive ,skin peeled from feet ,and temporal area above eye brawos . does he need to increase steroid dose again thank u very much
Hi, Steroids are generally not advisable for pulmonary embolism as a primary Chat Doctor.  Tachycardia and hypotension seems to be caused by pulmonary embolism that to is massive. Get your CT chest done along with pulmonary CT ANGLO to check for infarct size thrombus burden. You need to thrombocyte. I would suggest you go for the test if they are normal then only you should increase the steroid dose. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.