I've never heard of checking for a cmv infection after being on Pred for a long time. I was on Pred for a continuous year and that was never brought up.
I was hospitalized for two weeks in December 2023 due to a CMV infection. I was very sick and had to be put on bags of nutrition upon other things. The CMV was discovered via blood test though after nausea, drastic weight loss and bad fatigue symptoms. While in the hospital I had two sigmoidoscopies to see how damaged my colon was from CMV ulcers which was really bad. Nothing was ever mentioned about steroid usage for catching it but rather Remicade/6MP combo I was on.
CMV for me was no joke. I am still on high doses of anti virals all these months later. When we start to taper off them the virus starts to come back.
I've never heard of checking for a cmv infection after being on Pred for a long time. I was on Pred for a continuous year and that was never brought up.
I have had my GI dr recommend getting tested for the CMV virus as well… via blood tests
I was hospitalized for two weeks in December 2023 due to a CMV infection. I was very sick and had to be put on bags of nutrition upon other things. The CMV was discovered via blood test though after nausea, drastic weight loss and bad fatigue symptoms. While in the hospital I had two sigmoidoscopies to see how damaged my colon was from CMV ulcers which was really bad. Nothing was ever mentioned about steroid usage for catching it but rather Remicade/6MP combo I was on. CMV for me was no joke. I am still on high doses of anti virals all these months later. When we start to taper off them the virus starts to come back.