Posted 10/30/2015 3:22 AM (GMT 0)
In March I was on 50 mg of prednisone when I was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease..Dermatomyositis (I know I have this under Lupus.. I am pretty new to this site and don't know my way around it). Anyhow, I was on that high dose for about 2-3 months. After that I started to taper 5 mg every week until I reached 5 mg. I will have to stay in that dose for who knows how long. I was wondering if your face can go back to normal if you are on 5 mg for many years. My doctor told me in time my face will go back to normal even if I remain of 5 mg. However, I've heard a lot of people saying that their face never went back to normal until they were completely off the steroids. I wanted to hear anyone's experience with prednisone at this dosage. All the other side effects seem to be going away except the moon face, fatty neck and huge stretch marks.