HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Pred and mobility issues

Support Forums
>
Ulcerative Colitis
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 5/2/2008 8:55 PM (GMT 0)
The past month is has gotten really painful sometimes to get up after I have been sitting or when I wake up in the morning.  I walk like my Grandma........then after I am up for a bit I am better.  But my joints hurt and the bottoms of my feet hurt.

Is this typical of the pred?  I see my Doc on Wed so I will go over it then but in the meantime, any thoughts, experiences or theories are welcome.

I HATE PRED! mad

Posted 5/2/2008 9:43 PM (GMT 0)
YES! Prednisone gave me all kinds of joint issues. I always notice that my fingers start hurting first. Then my arms and legs and so on . . . Even my skin hurts sometimes. I can just touch it and it feels like its bruised. The steroid also altered my taste. If I ate anything sweet, it just didn't taste right. I've on Pred twice and each time the side effects were weird.
Posted 5/2/2008 9:48 PM (GMT 0)
Totally the pred. My knees were so bad the last time I was on it I literally had to have my husband lift me out of the bed. If I sat too long it got bad in my hips as well. Hang in there!
Posted 5/4/2008 10:46 PM (GMT 0)
thank you! Sorry you both had to go through that.

Tab - did that take a while to go away?
Posted 5/5/2008 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
Beth....As I tapered it got better and better. 60mg was my highest dosage (that was April '06). Once I was off pred. it almost immediately went away. Hope that helps!!! PS I have underlying knee problems unrelated to pred that may have contributed to it.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply