I am tapering down on prednisone after being on it all summer with crohns disease. My fluid retention has been horrible, and the doctors have changed my diuretics a few times due to low bp and low potassium. I am at 80/40 mg daily of torsemide now and 50 mg a day aldactone. Still at 5 mg prednisone and going down. I am sodium hypersensitive and it is so much worse now. I have gained fluid weight, lost it and gained a lot of it back again. They have stated diastolic failure due to leg swelling, however, ekg and echo, chest x ray all good. Can the water weight stop when I get completely off the prednisone? Thanks

I took 24 mg prednisone 1st day? Then 20 mgsecond day. ( order is till 6 days) im having palpitations.. Is it ok to stop it??

I was diagnosed with bird shot 2 years ago and take prednisone after each attack. presently gradually reducing from 60 mlg prednisone 3 months ago to present 4 mg a day. Dropping 1 mg a month now so hoping not to become depressed when I finish this course. Any better solution than taking prednisone. also on anti inflamitarory diet as much as possible.

Hallo doctor i have secondary XXXXXXX disease 3 months ago because i took dexamethasone not in the correct way. my cortisol level was so low with number 1.4 from the normal range start from 4 for 8am cortisol then my endo put me under prednisone with 5mg in the morning and 2.5 mg at night then 3 months later i test cortisol again at 8 in the morning while i take prednisone 5mg at 6 in the morning then the result was 4.8 above the minimum range of 4 . My question is:
1. my endo told me that cortisol blood level test not affected wether i take prednisone or not, is that true?
2. Do my disease is getting recover? My endo start to tapering my prednisone starting next month with only 5mg in the morning
3. Did my immune system was pressed under this prednisone medication although it just the replacement of low cortsisol level
Thanks doc

I have Hashimoto Encephalopathy of the brain and I am on 120 mg of prednisone each Sunday (which is push therapy.) but the nuerologist is thinking of redusing the prednisone and adding azathriprone . I was just wondering with the AZA drug would you be able to tan. I love the sun and live in Arkansas and was just wondering. I also have a colostomy bag (4 years now) permanent and also MS and also take phenebarbitol for a seizure disorder but have not had one in over 20 years. The nuero I have had heard on HE but had never met anyone that had it until he met me so does not know a lot about it so we are doing trial and error and we have a facebook page and he has me print things off when I see him every three months. I know that the prednisone is not good for me so was just thinking of something else to tell him. It will be 2 years this Sept since I have been on prednisone every week.

I have sarcoidosis with quite a bit of scarring in my lungs. I had a flare up at the beginning of July and been on 40 mg of Prednisone and home oxygen since then. My breathing is better but not back to normal. Any exertion will bring my level below 90. My question is how long should I give the prednisone to work before adding an immunosuppressant?

QUESTION: Safest/easiest way to wean off 2.5 years prednisone therapy?
HPI: Mid-september, 2008, 68 y/o married medical doctor on a routine cardiac follow-up, was determined to have an elevated serum calcium. Follow up studies over 4-6 weeks revealed slowly rising CA levels. Despite lab & scan workup, no evidence of parathyroidism. By Dec 4, 2008, serum calcium was 15 and patient had lost 60 lbs due to loss of appetite & inactivity as well as having mental changes. Hospitalized & treated with intravenous fluids & diuretics. On Dec 6, patient under general anesthesia underwent an iliac crest bone marrow biopsy, left axillary biopsy, and since the presumed diagnosis at this point was non-hodgins lymphoma, had a port-a-cath inserted in the right chest wall. Post operatively patient was placed on prednisone and discharged on Dec 7, 2008. Within 2 weeks
the biopsy returned after having been reviewed by multiple pathologist at several institutions and showed Sarcoidosis of the Bone Marrow wilthout pulmonary complication. Subsequently on prednisone therapy, the serum calcium fell to normal but attempts made to wean off of prednisone have failed multiple times.
He developed signs of osteoporosis of the femoral necks and prednisone myopathy, particularly in the shoulders and hips so it was decided to try to stop the prednisone. He has been on 5 mg of prednisone every other day for the past 3 months and is severely symptomatic with arthralgias and myalgias, joint stiffness, headaches, neck pain,nausea, anorexia, and total body misery. These symptoms have not improved since the prednisone was reduced on 03/24/2011 to 5 mg alternate days. Prednisone withdrawal has also induced mild congestive heart failure, requiring the addition of O2 to nightime C-Pap. What do you recommend to jump-start the adrenal gland or adrenal/pituitary axis?