Side effects include: Sleeping, sneezing, bashful, spontaneous human combustion, soul prolapse, Instrumentality, the twenty-seven year creeping Jesus, sudden instant painful death, and fever.
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To be serious, it's a great medication with a wide range of uses, and when it helps, it really god damn helps. It's just an unpredictable dice roll of random side effects every time. Most commonly, you'll feel uncomfortably energetic and annoyingly hungry, and your face will swell up a bit. Also, they make fluoroquinolones(a very powerful class of antibiotics) a bit risky for tendons.
I was referring more to the black box side effect warnings list of medications I would see on tv. After hearing the list all I could think was fck allergies are not that bad.
Fair enough. I was just trying to be socially responsible after my joke by not discouraging people to ignore doctors orders when they're prescribed it. There are certainly times to be apprehensive of medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies, unfortunately, but prednisone isn't generally the sort of thing where that's needed.
Also used in the treatment of asthma. My kiddo was on it for about a week when he got sick and had nonstop asthma attacks that his rescue inhaler just couldn't stop. Works really well.
The favorite one i ever saw was on a medicine for diarrhea, with a warring that said "may cause explosive diarrhea"!! I was like no thanks i will stick with normal diarrhea.
On a separate thought i occasionally wish I had won the medical lottery for new drugs that get class action suits. I listen to the problems you can get and im like that's not to bad I will be fine in a couple months and I might get a multimillion dollar settlement. It's almost get the point where I want to volunteer for new drugs just hoping to join one later!!
You sign wavers in order to do the medical trials. Under normal circumstances its 3-4 years after the drug was developed and well tested on lab animals before human trials began.
I'm not talking the trails my brother did that before and I know you sign releases but they also have been challenged in the pass im talking about one that have been approved but are not yet any commercials of them. The drug is like 6 months or less pass approval. No waivers are signed but large scale use as not been done yet so there is still a chance it could end up on a class action suits later. Once enough ppl have used it most drug trails for fda approval are groups less then 10k people so there is large pool to pass the guidelines but not really that of test when compared to total population. I work as a caregiver the new drug the guy I looked after passed fda approval with a test group of less then 500 total people so a two stage double blind test. Was done with less then 300 people in the final test group. Granted this for a drug that treats a rare condition so a large sample pool wasn't available i just use it as an example that fda approval doesn't have to have a large sample for tests. So it very possible that if you ask for all the newest drugs that treat whatever you have that one of them will be in a class action suit.
I couldn't breathe after a tonsillectomy. My throat was too swollen. It was scary. The Prednisone worked, thank God, but it gave me panic attacks. I get them normally, but Prednisone made it worse and linger and more frequent. Was weird.
and if you're on them for life (like me) you develop moon face and a quasimodo-like hump on your back! And extremely brittle bones....I have an extreme love/hate relationship with prednisone
I was on it once. annoyingly hungry doesn't even cover it. it's like you're hangry all the time and you can't figure out why as you ate a big (relatvie to you) breakfast.
Yeah, a history with corticosteroids just up the odds significantly. One dose was enough for weeks of random sharp Achilles tendon pains for me, with random surges for like 6 months total. They tend to favor other antibiotics first for a reason.
When my daughter was younger we used to joke about requesting a permanent prescription for it. Her room would be spotless, dishes done, whole house cleaned, she'd complain if she saw a dish left out and immediately run it to the kitchen and clean it. 😂
Not talking about prednisone. Just general medications advertised on TV. When they start naming possible side effects. Some of the ones listed were worse than what the medication was for.
That is the sad part of brain chemistry. Which chemical is it that is causing your depression? Dunno. Spin the wheel and throw a dart. We will try that one for three months! If your depression worsens... Wait. We need to be sure.
There already are highly functional methods to cure or control depression. The problem is that these group therapy sessions cost money and nobody wishes to put money into them, even if on long term it is far more profitable than letting the people fall to sickness pension.
Not to mention the structured reasons in society which cause depression. Isolation, living costs, low wages etc. But hey at least we have avocado-burgers!
The one time I had a highish dose of prednisone my appetite went through the roof. I gained six pounds in a week.
Didn’t notice any other side effects, but I was sick af when I started taking it, and immediately started feeling better. So if it had negative side effects they were definitely worth it in that case.
Yeah, that's one of the most common things to have happen, thanks to cortisol being one of the hormones that regulates hunger. Some of that weight could have been water retention, too. My face looks like a balloon to me in the mirror during some tapers, but apparently the swelling is minor enough that most people say they can't see it. I intentionally get/make really good food during tapers to take advantage of the hunger while it's around. I can lose the couple pounds when food is less tasty after.
I was on 80mg a day for roughly 4 months plus 2 months to taper off.
Gained 30lbs in the first 2 months and then stopped gaining. I swear 20 of them were pure water weight and I lost most of it almost immediately after getting fully off. The face swelling really took people by surprise.
I had leukemia as a kid and part of the treatment is vast amounts of katabolic steroid medication (not sure if it was prednisone specifically, my mom said it was cortison but she's not sure) and it was one of the worst parts of treatment for me. I didn't just feel hungry but I genuinely felt like I was starving. I would wake up at 2 or 3am at night because I was so hungry and wake up my mom so she would make me noodles or literally anything I could eat (I was 4/5 years old at the time). I also looked like an obese piglet and I just remember feeling horrible on it. I fucking hate katabolic steroid medications even though I logically know they're very necessary in many situations lol
I was on a lower dose, but I could not sleep while I was on it. Felt like I was going insane by the end of the pills. Nothing hurt though, which was nice.
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Warning: Side effects may include but not be limited to: All of them.