Entocort side effects

Hi Gang,
I started 9mg Entocort on 10/28. I am cautiously hopeful because I think my GI symptoms are improving a little bit. I am getting daily headaches and some mild nausea that I think is a side effect of the Entocort. I'm also starting to get acne (I usually have very dry skin) I want to hang in there with the Entocort, because I am hopeful it will help. For those of you who have taken Entocort, do the side effects wear off as your body adjusts to it? My doc wanted me on the 9mg for at least a month before considering tapering. Tylenol helps a little, but mornings seem especially hard. Any advice??? Thanks

Ds was on entocort, think he was on  full dose for about a month and then a few months weaning off(weaning off took longer than the time he was on full dose) He really suffered with acne as a side affect and even months after weaning off the acne persisted.

He tried several prescriptive items for it with no joy and so was referred to a dermatologist(3 month wait til his appt)In the mean time we went with a herbal product that cleared his skin up really quickly.

In his case the drug did very little for him except plaster him in acne and it is not a drug he would be 'happy' to use again.

I am glad that it appears to be working for you and all I would say with acne side affects is that if it starts to take over seek treatment for it and not wait as long as we did in the belief that it would 'sort itself out' once  off the drug, that didn't happen for him and although his skin is now clear he has been left with pick scars.

I had very bad acne on Entocort (huge cysts everywhere, not fun) but I didn't get many headaches or nausea.

My son also is on Entocort after being on Prednisone now the acne continues to get worse.  What was your Herbal remedy that he use to clear up the acne.  Can't wait for him to be off Entocort.

Hi Butterflymom,

Sorry to hear that your son is being plagued by acne too. In ds' opinion the acne was far worse (I guess by that he meant visually) than Crohn's.

The product that was recc to me was an acne product by Nature's Sunshine but I couldn't get hold of that. My local Health Food shop recc a product called Blue Flag Compound.They are tablets taken orally (two to three tablets twice a day) We were warned that they could cause an upset stomach as a side affect but ds did not suffer this way. Within a week his face looked 'less angry' and red and continued to improve so much so that when his derm appt came around he was virtually free of it. It's not really expensive, here in the UK Blue Flag is less than £10 for 100 tablets.

I really don't know if it was a fluke or not but it certainly made ds really happy when his skin cleared up

 

Post Edited (vixen) : 11/27/2011 12:40:55 PM (GMT-7)