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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Be very careful with the prednisone!
That stuff is scary. My MIL started taking it under doctor's orders. She suddenly felt like 20 years younger and loved it. She is a very quiet lady, and I had never had a long conversation with her after many years of marriage to her daughter. Out of the blue, she called my cell and chatted like a teenage girl about all sorts of things for over an hour!
She finally started gaining weight, especially in her face, and her doc took her off of it. She crashed like a heroin addict with a monkey on her back. It is a too long of a story to go into her issues then, but it was months before she was back to normal.
Just be careful with that stuff. It is powerful medicine.
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I went through two, six month stretches, in a 1.5 year period, of Prednisone use in order to treat an optic nerve condition, via a neuro-ophthalmologist I was referred to by a retinal specialist; hyper activity, much trouble sleeping, hot all the time (including episodes of flushing) severe headaches and even much increased irritability. Then came the weaning off processes that were very tough (crashing like a heroine addict, like you mentioned above). That was a very unpleasant time for me but sure beat going blind!