PREDNISONE Reviews (PREDNISONE)Average Rating: 2.5 (617 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PREDNISONE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREDNISONE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Poison Ivy Rash | I started experiencing my side effects after I stopped taking the medicine after the 7th day. Two days passed, then I all of a sudden began to feel dizzy, totally lost my appetite, my heart rate increased up to 140/88 (normally its 125/75 or something). I got worried, anxiety started to kick in, my temperature rose a bit, began feeling slightly weak, began to worry a great deal. Went to the ER to make sure it wasn't anything major. Doctor said its nothing major, he saw no signs of anything major going on, so he let me go. The next day I was feeling the same. I have had trouble sleeping, sometimes I would sweat a great deal in my sleep and have nightmares. The next day I went to my personal doctor. The doctor examined me, checked me out, and said he found no symptoms of anything serious happening with me. All he could conclude is that this is due to side effects of this tablet, i.e. Prednisone. Its the 3rd day now, I lost 6 pounds in total (water weight possibly? I dont know..) feeling | M | 28 | 7 days 20mg 1X day | 7/14/2013 | 1 | BOOP | Headaches, dry eyes, weight gain, lots of weight gain (80 pounds), swelling, bloating, insomnia, confusion, forgetfulness (towards the end of taking), irritable (rage). | I took Prednisone from 10/23/12 up to today 6/26/13. I started with 60 MG and tapered down and then up and then down again until a month ago I was tapered to 5 MG every other day and today I was freed. | F | 41 | 8 months 60 MG 1X day | 6/27/2013 | 1 | Severe head congestion | I take this med every now and then to alleviate serious head congestion that eventually leads to vertigo. Side effects were even worse this time than last. A NIGHTMARE!! Prednisone made me manic, anxious, and ravenous. Because I was high as a kite, I made some bad decisions while on this drug, including sending some weird and crazy emails. I couldn't sleep. I was HUNGRY constantly, there was no "off button" on my hunger, so I ended up gaining weight. In two weeks, I gained 5 pounds!! Coming off this drug was as bad as being on it: flu-like symptoms, headaches, nausea, shakiness, anxiety, mood swings, heart racing. I was in hell. Why don't some drs mention these side effects, at least you can prepare for the worst. | F | 48 | 2 weeks | 6/16/2013 | 5 | rheumatoid arthritis | Prednisone has been the only thing keeping me functioning since my RA diagnosis 1 1/2 years ago with no noted side effects other that stomach discomfort. I combat this by taking it with prilosec otc.I do worry about the long term effects and my RA has been flaring a lot lately so I am weary about increasing my dosage even though I know it will definitely help short term. | F | 41 | 1 years 10 mg | 5/26/2013 | 5 | Rhumatoid arthritis | Elevated blood sugars and heart rate. | Arthritic pain was gone within 8 hours. Returned three days after stopping. Sorry it has so many side effects as it works for the inflamation. | M | 73 | 12 days 1X day | 5/23/2013 | 3 | ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMITITIS | HUNGRY AND BLOATED AT TIMES. | MY FACE WAS covered with blisters burned badly and i looked like a monster. The Pred was short term and healed me well along with a moderate topical steroid and antibotics with Benadryl. It took three different sessions in about 2 months to cure my skin infection. | F | 56 | 10 days 5 1X day | 5/19/2013 | 4 | unknown autoimmune disease | All the usual side effects. | Gave me a sense of normalcy back after 8 months of steady decline in my health. | M | 30 | 4 months 40 mg 1X day | 5/15/2013 | 1 | respiratory inflamation | Started with 10 mg for 5 days and felt alright but had no relief. It was increased to 20 mg. and after 3-4 days I was not feeling well. My gut was a mess, no appetite, lost 3 lbs., bloated, had insomnia, felt like I was taking amphetamines, blood pressure went up. I'm tapering off now. I won't take this again unless I'm dying...maybe not even then. Horrible stuff. | Did nothing for the problem it was prescribed for. | F | 60 | 11 days 10&20mg 1X day | 5/8/2013 | 1 | MS symptoms | Disgusting medication. Tastes like s***. Making my heart thump like crazy. Insomnia. Lose stools. Excessively increased appetite. Puffiness... Can't wait to be off. More cons than pros... Solumedrol for short period at higher doses is way more effective than this constant medication at gradual decreasing doses. If I knew it would have been like this, would have never started taking it. | F | 23 | 7 days 60 MG >... | 5/2/2013 | 1 | asthmatic since childhood | The ten year span has been off and on and each time it would clear my lungs but then I would experience sever acne on my chest, back, shoulders and face, headaches, weight gain, increased appetite, mood swings, panic attacks, hair loss and dark nails....I refuse to ever take this again unless I'm unconscious and its giving intravenous. | F | 44 | 10 years 30 | 4/23/2013 | 4 | acute transverse myelitis | Over 30lb weight gain, big moon face, headaches (while tapering down), fatigue, back acne, increased appetite..besides that it helped to improve the symptoms of my condition (limb weakness, pins and needles, back pain) | F | 25 | 9 months 20mg | 3/18/2013 | 1 | tendonitis in heel | Horrible nausea, headache, prickly feeling in feet, shakiness, insomnia, ringing in ears, out-of-body feeling. | It relieved the pain of tendonitis, but the side effects are much worse than the pain. I was supposed to take it for a week but stopped after two days, and won't take it again in the future. | M | 69 | 2 days 20 mg 1X day | 1/26/2013 | 3 | Ulcerative colitis | all of them. It is the worst experience of my life. It saved my colon but no sleep, no brains, headaches, cant control myself, cant remember what im doing sometimes for long stretches of time, face swelled, life sucks. won't take again unless i have no other option. and once you start, you cant just stop. You have to taper your dosage down for weeks or months. Make dang sure you really need it. | M | 42 | 1 months 40 mg | 12/27/2012 | 1 | Pneumonia | Started with 5 days worth 40MG tapered down over the course of a week, symptoms of bronchial/asthma. Went back and got a course of 12 days starting at 40MG. Went back to Urgent Care with crackle in lungs and prescribed 40 MG for 5 days. Ended up in ER that day for panic attack/anxiety/tightness in chest. I really thought I was dying. Started to consider lung cancer/COPD and that I would have to kill myself. They ran all kinds of tests including 2 chest x-rays and blood work. Absolutely nothing wrong with me. Prescribed Ativan for anxiety and sent me on my way. | Never once did any Dr I see (travel so it was all Urgent Care), mention the side effects of Pred. This is a devil drug. Do not take it! I still don't feel right and from what I've read, it could take weeks for me to resume normal life. | F | 45 | 12 days 40 MG 3X day | 12/12/2012 | 5 | Nephortic Syndrome | So many side effects, mood swings , hungry , frequent urination , difficulty sleeping, did help to clear skin, and lost 25 lbs of water weight, small price to pay for health, hopefully can decrease the dosage and come off of it in a few months . | F | 35 | 4 weeks 60mg | 12/10/2012 | 1 | auto immune disorder | Oh.my.God.went to hospital for insanely out of this world liver enzymes. It was this or a transplant..although my liver is fine, my body was attacking it. 1.I have gained over 35lbs total.20 within the first month. 2. Sugar and salt only make it worse 3. Depression 4. Insomnia Honestly, everything but moon-face..although my face was looking decidedly puffier. Have been weaned down to 5mg and I cannot wait to get the hell off. I sweat profusely, I have a peculiar B.o. smell that won't go away with washing, diff deodorant, or anything! Strong 'feminine scent'. I HATE this stuff. Wish I had never met it..oh and sick ALL THE TIME! Totally done with this. Overall? It works, but at what cost? | F | 38 | 9 months 60mg | 11/29/2012 | 1 | systemic itchy rash | Just one 30mg dosage almost killed me. Severe heart beating irregularities, severe stomach pain, lower back pain, mid-month menstrual bleeding. | I am, 111 lb female. Stomach and low back pain lasted close to 2-3 weeks. I could not walk straight from the lower back pain | F | 49 | 1 days 30 1X day | 10/1/2012 | 1 | scleritis | You name it , I had it, insomnia, depression, sweaty all of the time, out of body feelings, hyper than no energy, low immunity)ended up with a bacterial infection that turned into bronchitis)(had to be on antibiotics for a month and then an inhaler) easily bruised, weight gain, moon face, puffy all over , especially the abdomen and in the neck, definitely felt more aggressive, easily upset, I am now tapering down 1 mg every two weeks but still have the bloated belly, cant wait to get off of this medicine!!! | Wish I was never offered this drug, and no. the doctors did not go over the side effects, I looked it up on line, I would never take this drug again unless it was life or death. | F | 43 | 4 months 20mg 3X day | 9/8/2012 | 5 | back and hip pain | So far, other than a little gas, no side effects. It has increased my energy and mood...and boosted my sex drive. It has decreased my pain also from a 9 to a 2. | I had extreme lower back and hip pain that wasnt reacting to anything else. The prednisone helped by day 2. It has been great so far. | F | 46 | 6 days 4mg 3X day | 8/11/2012 | 2 | Bulging disk/ pinched nerve | After just two doses I had very bad joint and " all over" body pain so severe that pain medicine didn't even put a dent in it. I definitely wont continue taking it. I've never had this kind of reaction to other steroids. | F | 39 | 1 days 30mg 2X day | 8/4/2012 |