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Posted 9/30/2010 1:49 PM (GMT 0)
I am down to 15mg and go down to 10mg tomorrow. My prednisone euphoria and extra energy is gone this week. Still I wake up at 5:30am each morning, but now don't have the boost of energy. For 5 weeks I felt like I was superwoman and could take on the world and this week I am feeling tired, grouchy, and depressed...will this feeling go away once I am totally off the pred? Is it usual to feel this way when tapering?
I have to do a presentation at work this morning for two hours and it will be hard to do in this mind frame - I will have to do my best to pretend I am up and enthusiastic - I am not feeling it at all.
I sure hope my tapering goes okay in terms of crohns symptoms (so far so good) although I don't think my GI is very hopeful he said on Friday that not re-flaring as I taper is "possible, but not probable". I think I'll stick with holding on to the possible because I don't want to stay on pred!
shakehead
Posted 9/30/2010 1:59 PM (GMT 0)
I always feel crappy for about 2 days when I taper down when on the lower doses. It does get better really:)

Last time I took Pred was wierd for me because I didn't get that energy boost. I was tired the whole time I was on it. Hopefully your flare calms down. If anything why don't you slow your wean down. Trying going down 2.5 mg a week instead of the five. Some who have slowed their wean down found they were able to stop the flare from coming back by doing that. Good luck!
Posted 9/30/2010 2:20 PM (GMT 0)
I'm with ya, BB! I tapered to 10 yesterday. Here's to both of us staying flair free!
Posted 9/30/2010 3:03 PM (GMT 0)
The only time I really got the pred energy boost was the first time I was on it. Loved it, but it only lasted for the first week. And then I never really got it at all on subsequent courses. Think I'm fairly resistant to the effects of steroids, both good and bad.

At any rate what you are feeling is very normal. One way around it is to do a slower taper, as Nanners suggested. When you go from 40mg to 35mg you're reducing your dose by one eighth. When you go from 15mg to 10mg you're reducing your dose by one third. Your body will notice that.
Posted 9/30/2010 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
I'm with ya too BB - off pred three weeks and still grumpy as hell ;P
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