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First I'd like to say I'm sorry if I've offended anyone on here the last couple days. I'm not myself right now.

Prednisone is kicking my butt. I feel bipolar right now. I'll be down in the dumps of depression then all the sudden I'm angry and flipping out. It's been the extreme of both sides today and I haven't been in the happy middle. I really don't think this is normal. But the last time I was on prednisone I was pregnant so I had that as an excuse for my moodiness. I don't have hormones as an excuse this time. I haven't felt this angry or depressed (enough to want to punch walls) since just after we lost our first child almost 2 years ago.

My nausea has been so awful since they put me on it. It was tolerable before but now, idk, it's driving me insane. I'm taking 25mg phenergan twice a day and that's not even helping it. Maybe it's because I'm eating more, but even then it's all food I know I can handle so why am I so darn nauseous?

Now tonight my neck and into my shoulder blades is tender to touch. And with me being so emotional and anxious isn't helping things. I don't think I can keep taking prednisone. I can't do this for a whole month if not longer if I can't taper without flaring. I can't... I'm going to call my dr in the morning and talk to him about this.

What you are describing sounds awful. I'm sorry the pred is hitting you this way.

Can you get Zofran to help with the nausea? This is a more powerful (and more $$) drug than phenergan.

Prednisone's side effects include nausea. You could try eating small amounts every hour or two and see if that helps.

Are you taking a split dose? If not, perhaps you could ask your doctor about doing that to see if a smaller dose in the AM and afternoon would help.

Prednisone can and often does make people sick enough that they require psychiatric hospitalization. It happened to me and to my son. Mood swings like you are describing are NOT normal and could get worse without treatment.

So, please if you are feeling that horrible and having very severe mood swings contact your personal doctor and tell them you need a psychiatric consult right away - as in tomorrow morning first thing.

If you get feeling like you want to hurt yourself or someone else, especially if you are raging and breaking things or driving recklessly, please go to the ER.

Also, if you are taking any kind of medication or herbs/OTC products like St. John's Wort to help with anxiety or depression the pred could be interacting with that and the interaction could be making you worse.

Unfortunately, in my experience, GI's are either ignorant or in denial about the severity of pred side effects many people experience. They are especially ignorant and/or in denial about the psychiatric effects of this drug. This makes it even harder for people who do experience these side effects to come forward and ask for help.

Do not let this stop you. Any psychiatrist worth their salt will know right away what is happening to you and be able to support you and perhaps help reduce the sx until you can get off the pred.

thanks for your support and well wishes. I spoke with the nurse and after she talked to my dr he wants me to stay at 30mg for an extra 2 days to see if my moods start evening out and then he wants me to drop it down to 20mg. I'm feeling a little better after a break down this morning.

Nausea hasn't been bad today. I take phenergan because zofran really doesn't do anything for me. Nothing else helps either. Ran into this issue with morning sickness as well.

One day at a time...