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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PREDNISONE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | asthma flare up | Severe mood swings, rage, paranoia, insomnia, buzzed like I had too much caffeine, shaking, rapid heart beat | Prednisone worked wonders for my asthma but really threw me for a loop mentally. I take inhaled steroids regularly so I know that they can cause shakiness and restlessness, however I've never had mental side effects like this! I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't focus, I would go from super happy one second to crying the next. My emotions were all over the place. I barely even have memory of my week on prednisone because my mind was all over the place! That being said, the symptoms went away as soon as I got off the meds, and it really really helped my asthma. I would take it again if I had to, but this time I'd know to expect to feel crazy all week! | F | 15 | 5 days | 6/7/2015 | 3 | Chronic Iritis/uveitis | Horrible/drenching night sweats even with ceiling fan and a/c high, HUNGRY as heck all the time, weight gain, stretchmarks, moon face, flushed cheeks, acne, back aches, frequent urination every hr at night, depression/suicidal thoughts, some insomnia exteme some nights, moody, PMS is more extreme than usual w/periods 1-2 days early. I'm also type 2 diabetic (well controlled A1c 5.9% w/no meds), but w/prednisone glucose running SUPER high in 200s often. Now back on insulin (fast acting and lantus) and have to take A LOT to get #s down before they spike again. | This is what is happening on a low dose of prednisone of 20mg 2x daily for 2 months. Dr doesn't want to increase because of bad glucose #s. Prednisone helping Iritis to stabilize with low flare, but not go away. When prednisone reduced to 10mg 2x daily Iritis flare increased again. Sucks! | F | 39 | 2 months 20mg 2X day | 5/10/2015 | 2 | Sarcoidosis | veracious appetitie; weight gain, glucose explosion, insomnia, irritability (even with anti-depressants). | So far, this time I'm on it for 8 months....I've put back on EVERY pound I lost (over 20lbs) and my sugar is through the roof. Now Dr wants to put me on meds for diabetes!!! My appetite is continuous and my stomach looks like I'm 10 mos pregnant. I hate this stuff....and I hate that it creates more problems needing more medications....it's a vicious circles that never seems to end.... | F | 58 | 6 months 10 1X day | 4/20/2015 | 4 | Temporal Arteritis | On 40 mg, emotional meltdowns everyday, nervous wreck. Weight gain, always hungry. Muscle cramps. Suppressed immune system. Tapered down to 22.5mg and the meltdowns went away. | I am tapering down now, from 40mg down to 22.5mg. A long and slow process because of the Temporal Arteritis. I now have a kidney infection and shingles because the doctor believes the Prednisone has suppressed my immune system and I wasn't able to fight the illnesses off. I don't have a choice of medicines; if I didn't have Prednisone I could be facing blindness or stroke because of the Temporal Arteritis. So, there are good things and bad things about Prednisone. It depends on the illness and the particular person. | F | 63 | 3 months 40 mg 1X day | 4/18/2015 | 1 | prevent allergic reaction | Swelling of hands feet ankles (10lbs in 2 days), sores in mouth and throat, severe muscle cramps and aches unable to sleep unable to eat. | Stopped taking the prednisone after 3 ER doctors and 2 clinic doctors (in a week) didn't believe that the prednisone was causing all my problems finally got to see my dr and he had to give me lasix to remove all the fluid he has never had a person have these side effects from prednisone and can only treat my symptoms. | F | 29 | 5 days 20 | 4/7/2015 | 1 | Back pain | Felt great the first 2 days then...Muscle aches all over, especially back and neck. Whole body tremors, shortness of breath, chest pains, blurred vision, changes in hearing, irritability, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia,jitters, unable to drive, very dizzy and faint, feelings of doom and feeling like you're going insane, crying, migraine headaches. Unable to focus, trouble speaking, dry mouth, stomach pain. | 2nd day off it and feeling worse than ever. Never felt this terrible in my life! I just want my life and my mind back! I could've dealt with back pain without this med. I feel like I'm dying and going insane. Will this feeling ever stop? Feels like it's only getting worse. Missed work today due to insomnia, body tremors, hysteria and hallucinations at night. Called doctor and was told that this is not tested to predisone and consider anti depressants. I will not become a pill junkie and kill my mind completely. I hope I'll feel better soon. I have a 9 month old baby to raise. She deserves a mom who's not on anti depressants . | F | 33 | 10 days 30 mg | 3/23/2015 | 1 | Severe asthma flare up | It momentarily saved my life, but next time, WILL CHOOSE DEATH! Went to the ER after 5 days of struggling to breath. Was given 20mg every 12 hours for 6 days. While on: Mood swings, Rage,Insatiable Appetite, Headaches, Anxiety, Shortness of Breath, Insomnia, Dangerously HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, Numbness in limbs. AFTER STOPPING this medication without taper (the DR said it was fine) I THOUGHT I WAS DYING. EXTREME pain all over body. Hurt to the touch. General mental disconnect. Cold and shivering. Muscle pain and weakness. Confusion. Sleep disturbance. DANGEROUSLY LOW BLOOD SUGAR. | Next time, I will choose death. This drug is horrible. | F | 29 | 6 days 20mg X2day | 3/9/2015 | 1 | Inflammation of the scalp | Anxious, jittery, couldn't swallow, couldn't sleep when I did I felt like I couldn't breathe. Joint pain, diarrhea weight loss. Off balance and feel out of it. Dry mouth | It's been 9 months since I stopped this horrible drug and I'm still not better. Anxiety is better but now dealing with ear pressure and vertigo that I never had before. | F | 36 | 2 days | 2/19/2015 | 1 | mild cough | I started taking prednisone not knowing why the dr prescribed it. It has been horrible night sweats,light headed nausea and I feel scared for my life. Its been 3 days after and i still feel very strange weird. Lots of anxiety! Why didnt he ever tell me why i was put on this horrible drug. How long am i going to feel like this. I feel like im in an earthquake my brain feels weird and i feel like im a walking zombie | never would i take this medication again. | F | 33 | 6 days 20 mg | 2/16/2015 | 1 | Poison Ivy | Disabling depression, thoughts of death, hallucinations, boiling stomach, burning intestines, headaches, limp arms and legs, insomnia, anxiety, UTI, teeth pain, blurry vision, and scared to be left alone. | This drug turned my life into a nightmare. I had a gastroenterologist work to get my guts normal again, a psychiatrist to get my mental issues resolved and a counselor to help me rebuild my ability to live without complete dependence on my family. I Will Never Take This Drug Again. Had I known these side effects I would have never taken this for poison ivy. This drug should be very restricted for use. Doctors should ask more questions before writing a RX for this. If you have a history or family history of anxiety or depression you need to be very careful with this drug. | F | 42 | 5 days 40 MG | 2/14/2015 | 1 | Eye Surgery | Legs feel like they are on fire, severe backache, aches and pains all over my body | Never again. Truly the drug from hell! First eye surgery, effects lasted almost 6 months after discontinuing use. Had another surgery in October 2014 and the symptoms appeared all over again. | F | 72 | 30 days 2.5 3X day | 2/2/2015 | 1 | Asthma | I will NEVER take this poison toxic deadly drug again. I was given it in hospital and very shortly after felt terrible. Sickness, mood swings from raging (could have ripped a wall down) to feeling weird spaced out. Shaking, tremours. I was near bouncing off the walls in my head.I was shouting and very aggitated. Was sick and stomach was so very painful. I was itching all over my legs and arms felt burning. They give me some allergic reaction medicine tthriough an IV and after seeing the consultant on the ward was given Hydro cortisone through IV. That made me feel moody, nausea, headache and period early. Stomach cramps but compared to prednisone not even a quarter as bad. This drug should be banned!! | NEVER take this poison again. | F | 54 | 1 days 10mg 3X day | 1/9/2015 | 2 | Severe chest infection, back pain | Moodiness, headaches, severe mood swings, feeling a sense of doom. | Does it's job but I hate the mental side effects. | F | 27 | 1X day | 1/8/2015 | 4 | Sarcoidosis | Weight gain whole body tremors， mood swings,memory loss،dizzyness bruises, insomnia | F | 31 | 6 months 20 | 12/29/2014 | 1 | ear felt clogged | I was OK until the tapering off. At that time I experienced severe uncontrolled tremors throughout my entire body. Episodes of tremors continued for about six months. Completely disabling. Also did not unclog ear | I think a new pathway was kindled iny brain ad I now have tremors in my legs all the time almost four years later. I also get panic attacks with any Lind of medication that sedates. Prior to prednisone I was fine. | F | 52 | 7 days 20mg | 12/25/2014 | 1 | Auto immune disease- SLE | Took this from 1997-2008 with no break. Almost every side effect. Amounts varied during those years. Ruined my life more than disease. Off of it for 6 years but too much damage done. Had to take again in 2014. Tried not to but disease symptoms made it difficult. Can prevent death from disease but may not be worth it due to the short and long term side effects. Self-tapering after 2 months, want off of it ASAP. Will choose death next time. | It's horrible and will ruin your life on high amounts or over long periods of time. Try to avoid. I am prepared to die than take this drug anymore. | F | 33 | 10 years 60-2.5 | 12/10/2014 | 2 | Rheumathoid Arthritis Flare up | I started taking prednisone pack for 10 days, at the ER,then given. A shot through. My IV fluid, then after a month. I WAS admitted to the ER. Once again. And given prednisone 10MG,then they raised it to 15 mg. For about a month, and now I stopped it with Dr's instructions to go from 15mg to 10mg for 1 week then 5 mg for one week then 2.5 for 3 days. During the course I was feeling very angry, my period was early and only lasted 2 days,I was nauseated, my stomach was burning and I had lots of stomach pains, I couldn't sleep I was getting heartburn and I was vomiting stomach acid! But I stopped that over 15 days ago and I am extremely hungry, and I feel Very emotional, and very tired,And I am very frustrated because. I'm scared to gain weight after I struggled to loose over 100lbs over the course of 4 years. Does anyone know how long would I experience this type of side effect, also I will never ever take steroids again!! Now I'm on Humira and Methotrexate and sulfazine and Plaquenil and clorocolonile! | F | 36 | 1 months 15mg | 12/6/2014 | 5 | nephrotic syndrome and minimal chan | My 3 yr old son not only gets chipmunk cheeks but also gets dark circles under his eyes.. he is always hungry but is on a 2000mg low sodium diet which makes it extremely hard... however this medication has really helped him even with his relapses | M | 3 | 3 months 15mg | 11/26/2014 | 5 | Multiple Sclerosis Progressive | Not a fan of steroids since a bad reaction in 2008 to Solu Medrol IV but so far only thing I notice is not being able to sleep ( but that's not a bad thing since I suffer from MS Fatigue) and I do see some puffiness from the meds in my face and stomach but I'm offsetting that with diet/tea and it's helping some. I'm going to see this to day 12. I wish I had done his sooner. I was never going to touch any steroids again but glad I did this time. | I'm on a 12 day treatment of starting out with a certain amount then downsizing to a few. I stayed away from this drug since a horrible reaction from Solu Medrol in 2008 when I was first diagnosed. I have suffered years from pain and inflammation. Pain meds only did so much and I'm very careful with narcotic pain meds I'm given. I caved in and agreed to a 12 day course. I'm on day 7 and I feel wonderful beyond words. I can't believe I allowed myself to go so long in such agony. I hope it lasts awhile. I don't want to do this again but right now the leg pain, nerve pain hip pain..are gone. I'm walking better not like a duck or with a cane. It's so great to feel a bit better. | F | 35 | 12 days 1X day | 11/22/2014 | 1 | shrink tumors | 40mg..urination..extreme agitation..mood change. Didn't feel like myself. Extreme depression. Didn't want to leave room. 3rd week..I kept looking in mirror. I didn't recognize myself. Hallucinations. One day i missed pill at bedtime and took it in the a.m. I felt dizzy. .blurred vision.anxiety.i couldn't drive. I tried to get off it myself..and whole body pain.sore throat..fever..I almost went to ER..then I Google side effects and realized all I've been through is medication. Went back on 20mg. 14 days tapering..weight gain so far 15lbs. Moonface..missed period. I'm at 5mg. day #3 for 7 days and scared. 1st day tired body aches ..eye infection..fingers and toes burning sensation..2nd day not hungry extreme fatigue..slept most of day..fever..headache. 3rd day..I bent over heard a pop lower back..and can't move since 9am. It's 1:30pm. Not sure of this is a side effect too. Extreme pain. 4 days left and off..so scared of anymore side effects. | Doctors should explain side effects. Give patients options. This is horrible drug. I would of said NO!! I had no idea what was happening to me. Until I started 20mg..and wanted to go to ER .and i googled side effects. Doctors need to be educated on this drug. Patients should be observed and should where big sign that they are on this drug. Doctors should stress how important it is to not stop drug on your own and needs to be tapered..extremely important not to miss or go.off of schedule...I HATE WHAT THIS DRUG HAS DONE TO MY LIFE. I'm still not done. THANK YOU DOC for not explaining side effects that you knew of and thanks for options. Bobbie | F | 46 | 3 weeks 40mg | 11/10/2014 |