This is not my experience but my mothers; She's been taking this ...

This is not my experience but my mothers; She's been taking this poison for 8 years. Her doctor finally(though her bagering) has her at 5 mgs. a day but it's already too late, her spine has had disc fractures to the point where she is completely hunched over, when she first started the drug she had normal bone density. Now her doc wants her sed rate to be 19 before he even considers taking her off the drug, which is ridiculous since I read that most women over 50 average <30; 19 is the average rate of a young male. Why not expect an 83 year old woman to have a heartrate of a pro athlete while we are at it? Anyway, this guy walks on water according to my mom and he has repeatedly blamed polymyalgia(her original condition) on everything including her bone fractures....when it first happend, I told her the severe sharp back pain was probably an injury but she didn't believe me! In later years when she fractured again, the ER x-rays proved it showing old fractures. So now all she can do is walk to the bathroom and back with a walker(and this is an improvement!). She's fallen several times, many ER visits and she continues to get URI infections, stomach pain and problems, her skin is extremely thin and she is depressed all the time. Also, it is known that people on predisone have a hard time getting rid of scabies; she was exposed in nursing home visits and she has been trying for months to get rid of them but they keep coming back severely too it is a nightmare! Her bones are shot, her muscles are non-existant, she can hardly eat or sleep and her day consists of walking to the bathroom and back with the walker because that's exhausting enough. My dad is the same age and he's does all the laundry and basics but it's hard. My brother and I help with some shopping and things but both of us have other obligations(he works full-time; I have husband and two kids) so my dad has alot on his plate. Prednisone destroys the body, eventually, and sometimes it makes the original condition look like a cakewalk.