PREDNISONE Reviews (PREDNISONE)Average Rating: 2.5 (617 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PREDNISONE with similar:
Type: Rx Drug
|
Results are sorted by Date added. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 |
More on PREDNISONE: Reviews Summary | FDA Adverse Event Summary
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREDNISONE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Pulmonary Fibrosis | Very dramatic change in my eye sight. Blurred vision for the last two month. Cramping in feet and hands, sweating sometimes, cold other times. Have been taking 20mg daily for last two months. Hungry sometimes and OK sometimes. | What I like about this drug is, my terrible, dry hacky coughing from IPF while trying to sleep, as subsided. Almost completely. It is worth taking to me, just for that reason. Coughing all night long and gagging is not fun. | F | 67 | 2 months | 5/23/2009 | 1 | UC | Heart palpitations, bipolar disorder (never had anything like the mood changes I had on prednisone) anxiety (severe panic attacks...racing heart, sweating), acne (not little pimples but very bad acne worse than I've seen on anyone), insomnia (and when I did sleep, I had night sweats). | M | | 5/19/2009 | 1 | Autoimmune disease | Hair loss. Sexual side effects. Acne. Rage. Vision problems. | M | 34 | 6 months | 5/14/2009 | 3 | Scaroidosis | Unable to sleep at night (usually 4 hrs total but not all at once); uncontrollable hunger - gaining weight daily; constant urination; swollen face after 4 weeks, soft finger nails, hair loss; dizzy and wobbly legs with leg and foot cramps. Mood swings and aggressiveness; blurred vision in the morning and evening hours. | I was diagnoised with scaroidosis in 2003 and had pretty much the same symptoms that I now have. The lymph nodes shrunk and I was fine until January 2009 when it returned. Presidsone does shrink the lymph nodes and I can now do simple tasks withoug being uncontollably winded. My doctor started me 60 mg for 3 weeks and was reduced to 50mg / since I was having dizzy spells and felt like I was under the influence. I am currently taking 40mg and the side effects are increasing but my breathing intake/outtake has improved and lymph nodes have reduced in swelling. I still work so its difficult to get through a day's work sometimes. I take a multi-vitamins daily and have plenty of carrot sticks/celery and other low-fat snacks with me at work so I can control the weight gain but am still gaining weight. I am very emotional do the point that I cry at the drop of hat...not certain what other side effects this will produce since I pretty much have experience all of them. | F | 59 | 2 months | 5/11/2009 | 1 | Lupus | Hallucinations - the scariest thing I've ever experienced. I was very depressed and thought about killing myself for no reason at all. | | 5/11/2009 | 1 | Crohn's | Clinical depression, cystic acne, hair loss, weight gain, yellow skin, insomnia, and it didn't even work for me. | F | | 5/6/2009 | 1 | CD | Hair loss, weight gain, acne, mood swings, loss of sex drive | I had no positive effects. | M | 20 | 7 months | 5/4/2009 | 4 | RA & Crohn's Disease | Weight gain, pudgy face, dark stretch marks on my legs and dramatic mood swings. | Prednisone works well and quickly to control inflammation in both diseases, however it is not something I like being on for too long. I gained a huge amount of weight while being on it for several months and it's difficult to lose. It makes you have a never-ending appetite for everything and it makes you have serious and sometimes uncontrollable mood swings. Above all else though, the worst part is the swollen face aka "moon face". | F | 26 | 12 times | 5/2/2009 | 1 | MS | Suicidal, very depressed, couldn't sleep, acne, sweating, heart palpitations | F | | 5/2/2009 | 4 | F | 1 days | 5/1/2009 | 1 | ulcerative colitis | Cystic acne that left scars and damaged skin. Clinical depression (having scars from cystic acne and ruined, damaged skin probably contributes a lot to this remaining even after I stopped prednisone but I was clinically depressed even before it had ruined my skin.) Hair loss. Stretch Marks. Insomnia. Heart palpitations. Anxiety. Moonface. High blood pressure. Red eyes--it dried out my eyes and I can't wear contacts because my eyes are too dry now. Weight gain. | My doctor at the time, Bushra Sulieman, had told me this drug was completely safe. He never told me about its side effects. When I experienced side effects, he brushed them off and said not to do anything; they'd go away on their own. Well, that was really horrible medical advice. That made the effects permanent. Prednisone can be horrible, but I think under the care of a competent doctor--or at least someone who's not a moron--it would not have been so bad for me. What's more, the effects would not have been permanent. I had a bad doctor and now I have permanent side effects from him--and this horrible drug he gave me in high doses. | F | 17 | | 4/27/2009 | 1 | to prevent allergic reaction | u guys.....scaring me.....i am a cancer survivor and oh so sensitive to any medication. the docs want me to take 40 mg of prednisone 12 hours before an MRI with contrast and then again 40 mg 2 hours before the MRI. It is to prevent an allergic reaction to the contrast they use.......tempted not to have the MRI, don't want to take the prednisone, maybe i will take benadryll instead, right before the MRI. The docs always say...." oh the side effects are mild if any,you won't even notice" b.sh......t I know for a fact this not to be true. I have survived cancer and chemo and radiation and on and on......so " no to prednisone " says I..... | F | 50 | 2 days | 4/25/2009 | 3 | Possible RA, possible lupus | Could sleep, as my mind kept me awake at night. Very productive during the day, but with only 5 hours of sleep a night, I can't continue on this. Also had some heartburn, but that was controllable with antacids as needed. | Starting taking prednisone 2 days after starting Celebrex, so it's hard to be sure the side effects were from the prednisone, but I didn't have any side effects for the 2 days I was on the Celebrex alone. Haven't really seen any improvement in my joint pain or stiffness from the prednisone. | F | 51 | 8 days | 4/22/2009 | 1 | Systemic lupus | Cystic acne, weight gain, hair loss, depression, tremors, elevated blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, anxiety, insomnia, moon face, buffalo hump, extreme fatigue, dry skin, dry eyes, mood swings, rage, euphoria. | | 4/22/2009 | 1 | UC | Suicide attempts, constant thoughts of suicide, severe depression, cystic acne, moon face, buffalo hump, memory problems, weight gain, stretch marks, no sex drive, insomnia, tremors, heart palpitations, profuse sweating, night sweats. | I was a completely normal person before taking this drug and had no history of mental illness and was a good student. Prednisone changed all of that. In addition, it did not help my ulcerative colitis. Even if it did I would not have taken it had I known it was so dangerous. | F | 19 | | 4/18/2009 | 4 | Severe Bacterial Infection | Tummy bloating, blurred vision, a small bit of diarrhea, desire to clean. | 20mg Given the severity of my infection, the side effects were nothing. I was also on a whole slew of other medications. My back hurt considerably less while I was on it too. | F | 31 | 14 days | 4/7/2009 | 1 | injurys | visual halluncinations,auditory hallunciations,tactile hallunications total psychotic reaction requireing time in mental ward. suicidal, multiple occurances until I figured it out. I now have a twenty year mental heath history because of a stupid drug allergy, imagine being half naked in the snow with a sword all night I could have hurt some one. | never take this drug orally or injected. I got hurt, got treated , went crazy, got referred to mental health, got treated with more drugs, got hurt, went crazy, over and over for twenty years | M | 54 | | 4/7/2009 | 1 | Minimal change disease | Weight gain,moon face,change of body shape, jittery,mood swings,severe stomach erosion,initially sleeplessness eventually extreme fatigue. | I was dx with MCD,what I actually had was FSGS which is scarring of the kidney filters not thinning. Prednisone has little impact on fsgs. I was on 75 mg daily for over six months and a weaning dose for another three months. It set off auto-immune poly arthritis. Initially I was put back on 15mg daily of pred and sulphasalazine. I had serious bowel problems and now am on methotrexate. They have all been crappy drugs but pred was the most invasive. | M | 59 | 9 months | 4/5/2009 | 3 | angioedema/allergies/sinus | I feel very jittery and hyper and can't relax. A bit of mania. Some nauesa. | I had an allergic reaction that cause angioedema and I ended up in emerg as my face swelled up and I looked like an alien/elephant. It was very red, inflamed and itchy. I've been taking prednisone 5mg for the first 2 days, then 2.5mg for 4 days. Today I don't take any. I had an incredible hunger yesterday and couldn't stop eating. I also have a sinus infection and am taking antibiotics. And I"m taking reactine and bendaryl. The swelling has come down but I don't know if its from prednisone or the other allergy pills, probably both. The doctor suggested predisone and I jumped at it because my face was so disfigured. I wouldnt take predisone long term unless I absolulately had to as I'm too high strung. | F | 33 | 6 days | 4/3/2009 | 1 | Dr. said | Severe panic attacks, heart palpitations, fuzzy thinking, depression, racing thoughts, rage, acne, high blood pressure, infections, bruises, couldn't sleep, was always hungry, gained 50lbs | By far the worst drug I've ever took. | M | | 4/2/2009 |