http://www.medications.co.uk/se/PredniSONE Recent side effects for PredniSONE Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:58:30 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33624 My daughter is 12 and just started taking Prednisone 5 days ago (40mg - she weighs 105lbs) .. I've been watching her salt intake - tonight she looks a little pale to me - is that a side effect? has anyone else experienced that? She has Ulcerative colitis http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33624 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:10:27 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33622 Prescribed Prednisol & Predsol June 2007 for acute ulcerative colitis. Three months, oral and rectal, got it under control.September 07 got large fluid appearances both knees which took two weeks to subside completely. Soon after & whilst playing golf got http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33622 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:36:24 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33590 Hi I just started taking 20mg of Prednisone for a shoulder injury. So far I have all but loss my appetite, which sounds strange to me since my doctor told me to expect to gain weight very quickly. I have also loss my need to sleep. I was up from Saturda http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33590 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:16 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33565 I was prescribed 20mg 3x daily for five days to treat "Reactive Airway Disease/Bronchitis." Yesterday was my 5th and final day of taking the medication and I noticed both of my shins began hurting for no apparent reason when I walked. I didn't think it had http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33565 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:00 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33420 I have now tapered to 10mg prednisone every other day and will end 75mg Cytoxan Aug 19th. Just went to the Dr. and she said protein is back in urine (bad) but also rising in blood. (good) I can continue to taper prednisone but will have to have another 24 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33420 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:27:41 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33371 Hi All - I have been off prednisone for one week and I am not doing as well as I thought I would be at this stage. My symptoms are not flaring, which is a very good thing but I am so tired and feeling very depressed and low energy. I thought I'd feel great http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33371 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:36:02 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33356 My son is suffering from psychosis because of prednisone. He had severe poison ivy and was given 10 day course of pills that tapered and a shot. Since then he has been in the psych ward for a week , released given respirdal and lithium. After 3 weeks we http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33356 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:38 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33338 I was prescribed a 6 day pack of 4mg Methylprednisolone (Medrol) at the ER for an allergic reaction I was having to a gel that I used on my sking. The Medrol worked great at stopping the allergic reaction. My swelling, pain, and rash began to rapidly cle http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33338 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:19:43 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33269 After a year of battling effects from an eye injury, an optho-neurologist finally came to the conclusion that I had orbital inflammatory psuedo tumor. I was told to take 60 mg immediately and then take 2-40mg doses (AM and early afternoon). On Friday, Jul http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33269 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:49:51 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33221 My husband initially took Prednisone after getting strange lesions, severe joint pain, severe fatigue and severe stomach cramps/nausea. It worked great he was tapered off and no problems for about 18 months. Then he go sick again (2/08) and has been up an http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33221 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:09:20 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33092 I have been prescribed Prednisone after I had an adverse reaction to an antibiotic which i was taking after an insect bite became infected. I am covered in a sore extremely itchy rash of weels all over my body. I took 6x5 mg of Presnisone with breakfas http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33092 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:56:33 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33084 I have taken one 7-day prednisone taper (40-40-40-30-30-20-10) for severe back pain due to a herniated disk on my S1 nerve. I noticed an improvement in ability to stand up, pain decreased, mood was happy, energy level up. Negatives? none. Thirstier than u http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33084 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:38:05 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33054 hi all. thanks for writing your comments here. it has helped me today, another HORRIBLE day of prednisone hell. i have been seriously ill for 8 months been told ever other week I'm likely going to die from lung disease (i'm 35) and after a painful lung bio http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33054 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:40:47 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33046 my grandmother started prednisone the day after the fourth of july and that Sunday in the car she thought the radio was on, but when she went to turn it off it was off, she hears joy to the world all the time. Sometimes its louder than others but its alway http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/33046 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:44:50 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32984 My husband was stung by a wasp. He had a major reaction of hives and fainting spells. Naturally we went to emergency where the doctor prescribed.. you guessed it.. PREDNISONE !! sigh. He was told to take it only the next morning of his attack as the pr http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32984 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:47:07 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32960 I was put on Prednisone for my COPD. Right after starting a 30 day script (I don't remember the dosage) I started experiencing SEVERE muscle cramps. Legs, feet, hands, abdomen, ribs, back. It was the most terrible experience I have ever had and I refuse http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32960 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:28:18 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32912 My 86 year old father was recently started on Prednisone therapy for about 5 weeks to treat aggressive eczema. Since the initiation of the first does, he has had extreme mood changes. The worst one has been aggressiveness and irritability. He was on 40mg d http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32912 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:18:14 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32882 I have been diagnosed with Ulceritive Colitis as well. I am about to be put on 30mg of prednisone and am terrified of these effects. I've gathered a lot of useful information from this forum and am thankful for that. Imuran, azothioprine, and remecade s http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32882 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:11:06 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32860 Thank you so much for your website. I cannot begin to tell you what this drug has done to ruin my life. I had been on it for over 4 years on a misdiagnoses (Never should have been on it) and was told “It was no worse than Tylenol.” Ok I thought a http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32860 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:08:45 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32859 Thank you so much for your website. I cannot begin to tell you what this drug has done to ruin my life. I had been on it for over 4 years on a misdiagnoses (Never should have been on it) and was told “It was no worse than Tylenol.” Ok I thought a http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32859 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:53:24 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32830 All that I can say is anyone taking this medication, be prepared. I am 24 years old and was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I was in a severe flare up and was prescribe Prednisone. I looked like a balloon in the Macy's parade. Along with looking like I was http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32830 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:37:15 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32812 My boyfriend was put on prednisone for an allergic reaction to an antibiotic. He did fine while taking the medicine for three weeks. They did taper the meds. He has been done taking it for a little over a week now. He is irrational and moody. He is eas http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32812 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:35:26 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32685 The first time I heard the word prednisone was late Dec 07 when I was hospitalized for severe pneumonia. I started off with a bad sinus infection that quickly advanced into pneumonia in a matter of a couple weeks. I tried 3 courses of antibiotics but I con http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32685 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:13:48 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32666 I have been on prednisone for 5 1/2 months now, I was hospitalized starting in February until like the 25th of March for a bad exacerbation(sp) of my ulcerative colitis. I have taken prednisone for 9 1/2 months out of the last 17 months. I have experienced http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32666 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:21:29 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32617 Hi all. I would just like to agree that PredniSone sucks but it is the best out there for these diseases especially the auto-immune diseases. Drug companies do not make any money on prednisone because it is generic and there is no patent. I know I picke http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32617 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:30:27 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32509 I have had a skin rash called vasculitis; Have taken prednasone and my highest weight is 230lbs. I used to weigh 147lbs. I feel like jabba the hut!! If I don't take it I break out and feel like a lepper if I do take it I may still break out and gain more http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32509 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:38:42 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32430 I have been on prednisone since November 2007 for minimal change disease, 65 mg, in May I started to decrease the dosage (per Drs. orders) and by the time I got to 15 mg all my symptoms came back and I swelled up again. I was again put on a higher dosage o http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32430 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:26 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32374 I was on a tapering dose of Prednisone taking 60mg a day for the first 4 days and then 40 for three days and then twenty for the rest of a twelve day period. I am so productive on the stuff! I cleaned my entire house, got a lot done at work, and have reall http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32374 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:18:01 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32367 PREDNISONE.... a word that is unknown to the naive and despised by the the knowledgeable. Before i begin i want to tell you that prednisone for lack of better word F***ed me up. So heres my story with the pill. About a year ago i was officially diagnosed w http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32367 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:54:40 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32319 my doctor put me prednisone 40 mg for 9 days to treat my inflammation of my neck and shoulders. I took my last dose 5 days ago. I'm still experiencing side effects like insomnia,anxiety,nervousness,fast heart rate and upset stomach. how long will side e http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32319 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:56:46 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32288 im a 20 year old male who was given prednisone to reduce the inflammation around my spinal cord in my neck from a herniated disk. 60MG in the morning for 4 days and 40MG in the morning for 3 days...... no real weening process which im seeing probably shoul http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32288 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:17:02 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32259 I went through a horrible withdrawal from ativan two and half years ago. It sent my CNS into overdrive. But I eventually got better. I have been extremely well and able to teach full time this past year. Then I got a very bad case of poison oak and was put http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32259 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:47:53 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32149 I was diagnosed as having chrones. My doctor prescribed me with Endocort. After taking it and still have problems I got a blood test and showed my sugar level had gone to 340- I now have diabetes. http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32149 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:58:24 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32114 I'm posting for my father as he's not into computers. He went to the hospital for COPD - emphysema and he was on Prednisone for 10 days that he was there followed by 3 weeks of tapering it off. I didn't listen to his complaints and now I feel bad, it seem http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32114 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:35:53 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32109 My husband has solumedrol IVs for 4 days-500mg every 8 hours due to a MS flare-He could not walk at all before he had the IVs. Now he is home and has used predisone to wean off the IVs. He has diabetes now with severe depression and he is in a fog a lot. http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32109 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:21:58 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32075 I started taking 80mg a day for a rash I developed after the Celestone didn't work. This has been the worst hell I have ever gone throught, I would much rather have given natural birth. 80mg a day for 5 days, 60mgs a day for 5 days, 40 mgs a day for 5 day http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32075 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:31:42 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32016 I was on prednisone for a little over 2 months for my asthma and it got even worse so my dosage got upped and I overdosed on it and had real bad mental side effects from it. i'm a healthy male who has worked out for the last 8 years, i'm 22 years old and 2 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32016 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:34:50 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32005 Prednisone is a popular medicine used to treat inflammation, but actually it is close to useless for anything. It can cause infections to flourish so any MINOR infection can blossom into acute wide spread sepsis. PLEASE use with CAUTION!!! http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/32005 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:42:38 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31944 My Dad is 75 years old has been in and out of the hospital because of exasperations brought on by COPD. He is fine when he gets out of the hospital with 40mg of Prednisone then like many others tapers to 30mg, 20mg then 10mg until he isn't taking any. Then http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31944 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:23:14 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31872 I am on my last of 10 days on prednisone and all I can say is Thank God! I am taking it for asthma and I feel worse than I did before! My chest feels like I am having a heart attack, I have labored breathing, I am confused and weak, terrible pain in my n http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31872 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:04:09 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31845 Sunday May 25, we brought home a new dog. Wed May 28 I started to break out in hives. I had hives for days, bad hives covering large parts of my body. Friday the 30 I woke up and both my lips were swollen to about 3 times the size they were supposed to be. http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31845 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:39:18 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31749 Hi my son was on Prednisone for 20 years on and off for allergies now he is allergic to the Prednisone that the creams would help him was crap. At no stage was he or I told of the side effects. Now he is in intense pain has major skin sores, swollen knees http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31749 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:18:47 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31725 I've been on in a little over one day. The 6 day treatment. 5mg pills-6 the first, 5 the second, and so on and so forth. I have been SO HOT! I didn't sleep for very long, and woke up a couple times in the middle of night burning up. For me, the mental sid http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31725 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:36 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31676 my sister was put on Prednisone for a inflamed heart and fluid around the heart, she started with 6 pills a day at 5mg for 7days, then 5 pills for 7days then 4 all the way down to 1 a day. When she got to 1 a day the EXTREME chest pains came back she was i http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31676 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:34:43 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31616 I suffer from cluster headaches as well as several other ailments (Doctors say..."we know it's something we just can't figure it out"...sigh). With my latest bout of cluster headaches they decided to put me on prednisone..60 mg for 4 days...30 for 3 days. http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31616 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:27:18 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31529 You people are freaking me out. I just started today with my first dose of prednisone for my first bronchitis diagnosis. I've been sick for 3 months and thought this would be a good med for me to rid the coughing. I'm starting to reconsider taking any http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31529 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:39:43 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31503 I was prescribed prednisone for cronic sinus infections along with antibiotic for 30 days. I was not weaned off just stopped completely after 30 days. It has now been three weeks and I am suffering from swelling in feet, lower legs and hands. Any sugges http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31503 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:57:57 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31413 Does anyone have the side effect of reduced sensation of smell and taste? I just got off of 7 days of 20 mg. Prednisone twice a day for severe poison ivy. I've always had the reducing dosages before but went to a new young doctor who said this was bett http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31413 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:33:42 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31362 I recently went into the hospital with vocal cord Polyps problems. They had swelled and Predisone was used to bring down the swelling. The Polyps were flopping over into my airway. Prednisone is terrible stuff and I think they started me out at a MUCH high http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31362 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:23:33 -0400 http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31330 I had my left lung fill with fluid and collapse after radiation treatment for Breast Cancer. The lung was drained with Thorocentesis and I was hospitalized for a week and put on prednisone - 40 mg reduced to zero in 1 week. I experienced symptoms of heart http://www.medications.co.uk/effect/view/31330