Prednisone 40 mg feel like Im loosing my mind

I started prednisone last week after a month of steroid enema's that didnt help. I feel like Im loosing my mind.
Im wrecked. Im nervous, irritable, restless and my husband described me as a tornado in the dark, and help or pointers?

My GI just isnt hearing me, or he thinks I am loosing my mind- no help there what so ever-

Been as high as 100. I quit a high paying job when I was on it early 2010. Careful what you say. I would yell at my daughter a lot for being messy, doc said one would beat his kids and had to live in the attic.

@mk11 symptoms are out of control I see my internist tomorrow-

@Cadillac Lover, I quit smoking in June (I just read the other thread) and smoke e-cigs,

I need to get a handle on this before the Holidays.

I was fine the first week on pred, then I woke up one morning and felt like I wanted to jump out of my skin (not to mention some other side effects that were troublesome). Called my GI and I weaned off as quickly as possible. Think I was on it a total of 3 weeks. The first time I took pred I was totally fine. You just never know. Hang in there.

I was on 20mg of pred from July to Nov. and I was going crazy after a month.  Just crazy.  I would go off on anyone about anything and I was so hyper and hungry.  I gained 50 pounds.  This was in 2009 and thank God I haven't been on it since.  I loved the drug the first month.  My symptoms when away right away and I was great.  Well, that drug is not good at all.  Now I know why people say that.  Good luck.  My poor husband put up with alot then.

Went to bed at 10, up at 130... back to sleep at around 330-4... up at 630 for the day...
Crazy restless dreams, Im exhausted- See the internist today.

Funny, when I was on 40mg of pred I had the opposite problems - I was ridiculously happy all the time and my libido (for the first time in years) went through the roof. It was when I started to taper down, to around 20mg, that I became an emotional wreck. Now that I'm off I've officially crashed and I'm tired aaaaallll the time. Man I hate prednisone. >_<

Woo Hoo! I have an appointment with a new gastro on the 23rd- Internist gave me new scrips for pain and the steroid
side effects-

I tested positive for a factor 5 blood mutation that has something to do with blood clots, not sure if this has any bearing on UC or not-

Hey carlie! Sry to hear you have to take the Love/HATE drug that is prednisone. I hate it and after multiple uses cannot stand to take it again. At my worst I was scrubbing the baseboards in our home with a magic eraser at 3:00am while crying. Some tips, do not drink any caffeine. It'll only make it worse. Set up a comfy zone just for u be it in a guest room or just take over the living room and make it a bed away from your normal bed. That helps waking up a significant other in the middle of the night because you're suddenly all chatty and can't stop fidgeting. Try starting a hobby that involves your hands like knitting or cross-stitch. It helps channel the fidgeting into something productive. And either chew gum or suck in hard candies to keep from wanting to eat all the time. As for the emotional rollercoaster I think if you are finding you are more down and depressed than just angry then try and ween off of it. Going completely off the handle is "normal" just make sure everyone knows you are probably going to say things you don't mean. Having a support system is the best thing for the crazy emotional changes. Your GI doctor ptobably hears you but to be honest he probably doesnt care Because in his mind he is helping you're colon and that's all he's there for. Hope this helps!

this alway suxs in my UC days i took 90 mg. not fun
1st time i was deppresed and quite 2nd agresive i threw things
3rd time i cant even rember just write your fellings down take time for yourself to recharge
this is always a hard thing to go through and for me each time i was a diabetic :( but i am not just the amountof steriods threw me intoit hope things get better

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum.  I was diagnosed with Lymphocytic Colitis about 7 months ago after having horrible symptoms for over 4 years.  I'm not sure if anyone here has my type of Colitis, but I didn't see an active thread for that, just UC.  about a month and a half ago I went into spontaneous remission, but that ended about a week ago and now my symptoms are back with a vengeance.  I was put on Prednisone three days ago while visiting my Gastro, 80 mg's for 2 days, then taper down 5 mg's every day until done.  After reading your comments, however, I'm not sure I want to take this stuff.  Does anyone think I should just stop?  Or finish the taper becasue it's only a few days.  I haven't noticed any symptom improvement yet, and not sure it will even work.  I've been on Lialda for about 4 months.  The only side effect from the Prednisone I've noticed so far is EXTREME hunger.  If this won't work well for this condition, or if symptoms will reaccur after stopping, then I would rather not try it.  I've heard of high dose Pepto.  I'm not sure what spawned my last remission, but it litterally happened over night.  It stopped the same way :)  I haven't tried any diet changes, although, I have got a lot of advise from people to cut out Gluten, even though my Celiac panel came back fine.  Any thoughts or advise, especially about the Prednisone.