Side effects may include:

• increased appetite (check)
• weight gain (check)
• facial swelling (partial check)
• depression, mania, psychosis or other psychiatric symptoms (check, check plus, I dunno)
• unusual fatigue (check)
• mental confusion (check plus)
• insomnia (check)
• anxiety (check plus)
• twitchy left eye (OMG)
• shrewishness (checkity, check-check-check)

I am on a ridiculously high dose of prednisone; 60 mg per day.  It's not permanent, but when I decrease to 40 mg per day next week, I'm not expecting to suddenly be able to sleep and think coherentlyish and say No to the tablespoon full of peanut butter and chocolate chips.  Without going into details you don't want, I'll say that the treatment is both better than and worse than the illness, and that I'll put up with the awfulness of the treatment for a little while in hopes of getting the illness back into a corner where I can kick and stomp it out of my way. 

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[b M n]

I never knew I was lucky. For several years I used prednisolon. At times up to 12 a day and then I had go slow down to 1 again. And then sometimes up again. Learnt how to do it myself (selfmedicate safely) with it in hospital. And I had none of the mentioned side effect. My illness: Morbus Crohn. Then it was Prednisolon with Salazopyrin. Later Salazopyrin with Imurel. Then I had Remicade-treatment. OK. Then Humira, I hated that one. Tried to go back to Remicade. And now recently I have had a ileostomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileostomy

20 years with M Crohn!

[Tia]

Wow my heart goes out to you. Please take care of yourself.

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I never knew I was lucky. For several years I used prednisolon. At times up to 12 a day and then I had go slow down to 1 again. And then sometimes up again. Learnt how to do it myself (selfmedicate safely) with it in hospital. And I had none of the mentioned side effect. My illness: Morbus Crohn. Then it was Prednisolon with Salazopyrin. Later Salazopyrin with Imurel. Then I had Remicade-treatment. OK. Then Humira, I hated that one. Tried to go back to Remicade. And now recently I have had a ileostomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileostomy

20 years with M Crohn!
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