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 | Earache | Insomnia; dry mouth, increased heart rate, tingling in hands feet and legs, mood swing to the (slightly) manic side, increased energy - i.e. wired. | I was prescribe 10MG twice a day by my ear, nose, and throat doctor because of an earache. It was a 5 day prescription. The first day I didn't notice any change and then the side effects kicked in and got worse every day. The insomnia was bad, could sleep maybe two hours at night and an hour nap. But to counteract the lack of sleep I was wired so that I actually didn't feel tired or sleepy during the time I took it. Very thirsty all the time. My resting heart rate increased, so be very careful if you are exercising. I got slightly manic, talked more quickly, talked more to strangers, felt my mood was much more positive. Had much more energy -- felt like I was on speed. I'm sensitive to drugs and for me this was a very powerful drug. I've been off it for two days and the side effects are just starting to decrease. Not sure how long it will take for all of the side effects to go away. I don't actually know if it helped my earache or not. | M | 50 | 5 days | 1/9/2009 | 1 | Chronic autoimmune urticaria | What didn't I experience? You name it, I had it. Moon face, 40 lbs wieght gain, not helped by the constant nagging hunger I always felt. Horrible pimple breakouts, crazy crazy mood swings and anger, swollen joints especially my knees I couldn't walk. heart palpitations, high Blood pressure, high Glucose levels, heartburn, leg cramping, muscle spasms, feet and legs would get that "falling asleep" feeling, calcium and potassium loss, wicked nightmares, night sweats, sexual side effects, kidney problems, gall bladder problems, insomnia, shakiness. I could keep going I'm sure. | This drug is a life ruiner. In oh so many ways. I gained 40lbs, I couldn't stop eating, if I tried to control it and take smaller portions through out the day I would get this constant nagging horrible hunger pain. I could never sleep and when I did sleep I just had nightmares and night sweats. Not to mention what these factors alone do to a relationship, my boyfriend and I may never be the same. The sexual side effects don't really help either, nor the fact that I was big and puffy and felt disgusting. The mood swings, crying, anger, and all around craziness were out of control and a deal breaker as much as the rest. If someone sneezed wrong I'd want to kill them. Prednisone also depletes your body of calcium and potassium thus giving you muscle spasms and the worst leg cramps you will ever feel in your life. No joke. All the time, day or night. I got a point where I couldn't even walk anymore, also due to the joint swelling in my knees and ankles. I heart always felt like it was goin | F | 24 | 4 months | 1/6/2009 | 1 | Labyrinthitis | Moon face, retained water (gained 6 pounds in 5 days), insomnia, anxiety, hyperactive, depression, urinary retention, now have chronic interstitial cystitis. Now have extreme fatigue being off the drug because my adrenal glands are in need of desperate repair. | THIS DRUG IS POISON!!!! I was given such a high dose to start for my weight (60 mg. for a 102 lb. female????) and then to taper for 12 days. I pulled myself off of it after 5 days and felt like I was going to die with the withdrawal symproms. I thought I would end up in the hospital a couple of times for what it did to my blood pressure and heart rate. It shrinks your adrenal glands and you can't produce your own cortisol. VERY DANGEROUS BECAUSE YOU BECOME LIFE OR DEATH DEPENDENT!!! This stuff is like DRANO for the body. My lower abdomen is so swollen from this drug. My bladder feels swollen and like it's on fire. Now I'm on drugs for that. I never would have taken it had I known what it has done to me. The dizziness from the labyrinthitis is preferred over this. I recommend trying to heal your body naturally with alternative care if at all possible before trying this dangerous stuff!!! | F | 29 | 5 days | 12/26/2008 | 2 | systemic lupus | 10mg daily. no arthritic pain relief and it did minimize butterfly rash/photosensitivity a bit. headaches, increase and decrease in appetite, naseau, weight gain/puffy face. will be on in until May 2009 (until Plaquenil has time to begin working).Want to get off ASAP! | wish i did not start it | F | 16 | 2 months | 12/23/2008 | 4 | Crohn's | -hair loss -MAJOR, crazy acne on my chest, shoulder and some on face. -weight gain (in my case, i WANTED the weigth gain -very moody, happy & social one minute and wanted to be left alone the next | i agree with all the comments. prednisone is very dangerous. It can also help you very much. I was one of the lucky ones. this drug really saved me from getting surgery. i was only on it for 2 months(only 3 of heavy dosage). it healed my crohn's where other drugs failed. the ance and mood swings were hard to deal with, but i was able to get through it because i was on it short term and it was better than getting surgery and having a scar on my belly. The hairloss didnt really bother me because thank god i have a lot of hair! the weight gain was a miracle! i had tried so hard to gain weight and its impossible with crohn's so this was great and boosted up my confidence. Once i came off the drug my acne and moodswings were gone. i'm currently on imuran to maintain the remission. | F | 23 | 2 months | 12/15/2008 | 1 | Ulcerative colitis | Extreme rage, bipolar moods, depression, feeling happy for no reason, hair loss, blurred vision, fatigue, excessive sweating, hard to concentrate/remember, acne, 50lb weight gain, insomnia | Didn't work. Lots of side effects. Would never use again. | M | 5 months | 12/13/2008 | 1 | Lupus | Impotence, hair loss, acne, frequent urination, skin infections, eye infections, slowed healing of cuts and bruises, unstable moods, rage, hopelessness | Being on prednisone is pure hell and it can mess you up for life. | M | 25 | | 12/11/2008 | 1 | kidney failure | Extreme paranoia ! Very hateful! Angers in a instant! | My mother started taking this crap 3 months ago... we haven't spoke in 1 month! She absolutely hates me now! She is in renal failure and I don't even know if she is ok or if she is dying! THANKS PREDNISONE!! 2 months into her taking it, it still had not changed anything or helped her condition. | F | 41 | 3 months | 12/10/2008 | 1 | Inflammation of my sinuses | Increasingly, tiredness, confusion, foggy feeling in head, inability to concentrate, feeling of heaviness. This was on a paediatric dose. I couldn't come straight off it as I had to be weaned off it, even though I had only been taking it for a week, and had only gone up to a half tablet. | F | 42 | 14 days | 12/9/2008 | 4 | Allergic reaction to antibiotic | The only side effect I noticed was increased hunger. I was literaly hungry all day. Also very thirsty too. | Other than being contatntly hungry I forgot I was taking it. It really helped to correct the bad reaction I had to Sulfa. | F | 30 | 5 days | 12/8/2008 | 1 | Crohn's | Clinical depression, thoughts of suicide, anxiety, cystic acne, scars, skin atrophy, hair loss, yellow skin, thyroid disease | I had no idea any drug--legal or illegal--could be so dangerous. My doctor, Bushra Sulieman, gave this to me, smiling, and said I'd take it for a few weeks and be back to normal. It didn't work. And its side effects have been devastating. Some are permanent. Skin on my face thinned and atrophied. I also have scars on my face. They'll never go away. Facial scars are devastating to a person's body image. I don't even want to leave the house. | F | 17 | 7 months | 12/7/2008 | 1 | pneumonia-then acute asthma | Almost all the ones described by the other raters..severe throat swelling, cardiac and pulmonary arrest. Severe weight loss on high doses and gain on low dose. A lot of muscle cramping. | I was first put on prednisone in 1985 for pneumonia. Within a couple of weeks began having asthma symptons and within a few months severe throat swelling. It changed by life completely, the more severe my symptoms the more prednisone prescribed. I was under the care of a nutritionist also that kept some of the symptoms down. In 1998 my lung specialist ran some tests that showed the prednisone was the cause of my symptoms. Slowly weaned off, took over a year. I am still plagued with frequent infections, loss of bone density and ear problems, but my throat has never swelled shut since getting off the drug. I was recnetly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and given prednisone, but refused to take it and got the disease under control with diet. Never take this drug--it will shorten your life and make it miserable. | F | 69 | 15 years | 12/3/2008 | 1 | Crohn's disease/joint inflammation | Delirium, depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts, constant rapid heart beat, loss of appetite, excessive weight loss, "cloudy" thoughts, lots of crying, panic attacks, physical and mental exhaustion. | This drug is the anti-christ. Did not help with Crohn's symptoms, temporarily reduced inflammation in hands but that returned. Panic attacks continued for 2 weeks after drug was discontinued. I was on a 20mg taper and it made me completely insane. AVOID PREDNISONE. | F | 36 | 1 months | 11/30/2008 | 1 | alergic reaction to antibiotic | 6 day supply plus intraveniously at urgent care. Horrible, extremely uncomfrotable scary side effects even 6 days after being off of it. Rapid heart beat, facial flushing, tingeling skin, high blood pressure, heartburn, muscle spasms, insomnia, anxiety, foggy thinking, could not even drive at times I was so out there, the rapid heart beat is the worst, scary! | I went to urgent care for the alergic reaction. The doctor gave me prednisone intraveniously, 6 potassium pills and a shot of Benedryl. He instructed me to take an additional 6 prednisone pills six hours later, in the evening then to take the rest on a scale down basis each day for six days till I am at 0. 6 pills,5 pills,4,3,2,1. When I was in urgent care my blood pressure was through the roof. It's not normally like that. The side effects from the prednisone did not start until I began to scale down the doses. It's now 6 days after being off of them and as I write this my heart rate is 120. My blood pressure is almost normal at this time, but it's been fluctuating each day from 161/98 to 135/80. I should have not been given this drug, I'm sure Benedryl would have worked fine. I will never take this again. Anyone who is at your doctor and they suggest prednisone...please ask some questions first. I asked the doctor about side affects and he and the nurse just made some jokes | F | 52 | 6 days | 11/18/2008 | 1 | asthma & bronchitis | mood swings, blurred vision, frequent thirst and urination, muscle weakness, constant hunger, facial swelling | I was lazy and did not get a replacement albuterol inhaler when my current one ran out. Developed bronchitis. Took biaxin for the bronchitis. My doctor prescribed prednisone since I was still wheezing a little after 4 days of the antibiotics. Called the Doctor after the weekend due to so many side effects. Ended medicine early. I would not recommend taking this if at all possible. At least get a second opinion before you take it. I have since switched doctors. | M | 38 | 4 days | 11/14/2008 | 1 | Crohn's | Bone loss, hair loss, weight gain, racing heart beat, severe acne, severe dry eye, depression, thoughts of suicide, anxiety, bruises, vision problems, severe insomnia, vomiting. | This drug can cause serious bone loss for both male and females. I shrunk considerably while taking this drug, and I'm a male. Any doctor who prescribes this as a first-line treatment to a young person is reckless and irresponsible and should find another line of work. There are better drugs. There are safer treatments. Use what's safest first. That should be obvious. I would never have taken this drug if I knew about all its horrible side effects. | M | | 11/9/2008 | 2 | Sudden Profound Hearing loss | drenching night sweats, leg cramps at night, VERY disturbing mightmares...just horrible, the kind that haunt you for days afterwards! Knee & hip Joints + lower back pains. Hot all the time. Excessive Hunger and weight gain, Moon Face, eye swelling, bloated looking and feeling | I absolutely hate taking this stuff! But It's a wonderful / terrible drug! I suffered through taking a high dose for 3 weeks | F | 54 | 3 weeks | 11/4/2008 | 2 | Sinus Problems | Hair loss, blurred vision, increased appetitie, depression, suicidal thoughts, fatigue, feeling hopeless, insomnia, sweating, acne, fat looking face, joint pain, muscles tighten up easy, sick all the time, nausea, sexual side effects. | been taking to prednisone for about 2 years it helps me breathe but the side effects are extreme and will get worse eventually. | M | 29 | 2 years | 10/13/2008 | 1 | auto immune | Rapid heart beat, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, repeatedly getting infections, infections never going away, eye problems, sexual side effects, acne, anxiety, depression, memory loss, achy bones, mood swings, impossible to sleep, moon face, buffalo hump, changes in the way my body stores fat now, increased sweating, rage... | Keep in mind that the only people giving this drug good ratings, for the most part, are people who used the drug very briefly. Anyone who uses the drug for a significant amount of time, for the most part, gives it a bad score. Take away the people who used the drug for a mere 5 days or so and I bet prednisone's score would be sub 2. It's a truly evil drug if you take it for a significant amount of time. It didn't even work for me. But even if it had, the side effects far outweigh any potential benefits. | F | | 10/11/2008 | 5 | Anaphylaxis/asthma/allergies | a little trouble sleeping, hyper, higher than normal blood sugar | the first time i ever took prednisone i was nine. i also took it for an allergy attack then... i experienced EXTREME rage and vowed never to take it again. it took me weeks to recover. BUT NOW, being 24, i have to take it after a recent anaphylaxis/allergy/asthma episode to suppress my immune system. and let me say, I FEEL BETTER THAN I"VE FELT IN YEARS!!!!! i am almost sad that i have to stop taking it tomorrow. i haven't breathed this easily in ages. i feel lively, energetic and healthy, for once. the only down side (i have type 1 diabetes) is that it is causing my blood sugars to be slightly elevated. but i've compensated for this by checking my BS more and raising my insulin doses to match my blood sugars. i've also made an effort to drink more water and eat a lower carb diet, which seems to have had a good effect. all and all, i am amazed at the drastically different experience i am having with this drug, which i once thought was so evil. so i can relate to reviews | F | 24 | 5 days | 10/8/2008 |