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Got a point I guess. But anything that puts on 12lbs in 3 days.....some nasty schit! What the hells it doin?

Last time my back went out my doc gave me a 10 day dose of it. In 4 days my back pain was mostly gone.

Take it in morning! Its a steroid. Makes you hungry and awake.

People are piseed their normal activity was upset by it. Well, that's easy to fix. Don't take it.

Just tell your doc you're tough and you will grin and bear it.

Phuq that chit. It caused kidney failure in the wife. She spent 12 hrs a week on a phuqing dialysis machine before she passed away.
Dont tell me how it's such a phuqing miracle drug.

All at once in the morning? Im down to 3 pills tomorrow. Supposed to spread out, breakfast lunch and bedtime.

I dropped my pred tablet between the seats today in the car on the way to Nashville. Said hell with it.


I wish it did make me hungry.

I can’t eat till about 2 in the afternoon, feel like I’m going halfway puke most days. Tums, zofran sweet tea keeps me alive.


I gave up trying to eat a rotisserie chicken I got from Costco. Gnawed on it 4 or 5 nights. Gave it to the barn cats.

I had a severe poison ivy reaction my Dr. gave me a shot of Prednisone and Prednisone pills to take for 10 days. The poison ivy started to itch less within hours was significantly better the next day and about cleared up within two maybe three days. I liked how I felt on it. I did eat more but slept less felt alert and awake. I’ve heard of those that don’t react well to the side effects also though.

Had a brain condition called Tolosa Hunt Syndrome years ago. Treatment was 80mg a day for 2 months, 60 for 2 months, 40 & then 20. A normal z pak starts with 20 the first day and drops by 4 each day. 80 was something you had to live to understand but it did get me through a very difficult time.

Sorry to hear

Slum, please taper off gradually to reduce risk of blowing out your adrenal glands. You really could be seriously screwing up.

The stuff made you feel like you were fine and could whip the world, right? Well you [bleep] cant!

80 mg a day for 2 months? wow

The Doc gives me some with antibiotics and have never had weird dreams or mean streak.

Says it makes the antibiotic work better.

Maybe it is the dose that is causing problems.

Seems like good and bad reactions here. Im goin to take some melatonin and close my eyes. Hopefully I can get some damn sleep and this stuff starts workin better.

Can’t quit it, part of anti-rejection 3 med component.

I have trouble taking it, and just got a prescription filled for it for a bad arm and elbow. I take it half a dose at a time, and still have trouble sleeping,

I dont sleep worth a damn, 3-4 hours and that’s interrupted by back pain, cold/hot. Go back and forth between a recliner and bed once or twice. Docs told me it would cause insomnia

I was on a daily dose of 70mg of Prednisone for 4 months along with weekly infusions of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) Kiovig for a very rare type of autoimmune encephalitis I developed.. In my case the high doses of cortisteriods was to suppress my immune system. In 2016 there was a movie "Brain on fire" about a US woman with a condition very similar to what I had. Anyway, I'm all good now with a new perspective on life.

As noted in another thread, I'm on 40mg daily, take it all at once in the mornings, and I feel great with no side affects, treating a sarcoidosis disorder. Will check labs at the end of the month to re-assess dosage. After 9 months of feeling like hell, the change is very welcome.

PTL.