PredniSONE Sudden Hearing Loss, Muscle Weakness, Nervous Wreck, Core Temperature, Time to Go to Bed

To Guest #10748......Yes, I had terrible side effects while I was reducing my dose. In fact, I ended up in the emergency room one Sunday because my blood pressure and heart rate went sky high. I am a person with anxiety and panic attacks anyway, so the prednisone really put me over the edge. I am now down to .5 (1/2 of a 10mg tablet) a day until they are all gone; and they are almost all gone, thank God!!!!! I am feeling much better these days; not to say I don't have my bad days. I am taking the prednisone for sudden hearing loss in my right ear, so I still have my days where I feel weird because my head feels lopsided. It is the strangest feeling ever. It's very hard to explain to anyone unless they have experienced it too. I had the muscle weakness, mostly in my shoulders and arms; the extreme hunger, (I still can't believe the food that I could put away) and just a general LOUSEY feeling. I was a nervous wreck. Hang in there; it will get better. I can say this.......I will never take it again. Even if I end up in a wheelchair someday for some reason....I will NOT TAKE IT. Oh, and I had extreme sweating; mostly at night when it was time to go to bed. I would have to get a cold washcloth and lay it on top of my chest to cool down my core temperature. It was awful!!!! I guess it was pretty much a NIGHTMARE. Like I said, Hang in there!!!!!!