pred questions

I'm on my first cycle of pred as well. My doctor had me start at 40mg and by day 4, i was 99% symptom free. Before the pred, I was having ~10 bm's a day (lots of bloody D) and after the fourth day of pred i didn't have a single bm in almost 3 days. This made me nervous especially because I was beginning to eat like a cow and was also feeling extremely bloated as well, which seems to be what you may be experiencing. I took a single dose of Miralax which seemed to do the trick and i've been fine ever since (down to 1 bm a day; only used the Miralax that one time). Other than an extreme appetite, I haven't experienced any other adverse effects from the pred (ie. insomnia) as of yet, luckily. Hope everything goes well for you and good luck on your path to remission. 

I am on day 5 of my month long predinisone steroid regiment. I am lucky that I don't get moon face. Food does taste a little different and I am not enjoying my favorite brewed herbal green iced tea that I live on in this heat. I have switched ti slushy water with a squeeze of lime - refreshing! However, the pred does exacerbate my perimenopausal symptoms, actually it brings them to the surface! I get more intense hot flashes and I am sweating like a pig the very few hours I can sleep. It is currently 1:03 in the morning and I have been up since 6:30 a.m. (this is day 3 in a row of this happening)! My family is gone for the week, so each day I have been tackling a room in the house and not stopping until it is clean, organized and purged of junk. My hubby is going to totally freak (in a good way) when he sees what I have done.

Work is good too ... I totally re-arranged my office and have been purging years of old paperwork, cleaning up my computer files, creating my to-do list for the year and more. My boss is going to freak, in a good way!

I am just waiting to see what happens when I "crash" ... will I just peter out slowly or slam into a wall of tired? Who knows? I don't want to be on this steroid but looking at the positive side, I am getting a heck of a lot done!

Yes, pred is the "love and hate" drug...if you take your pred as early in the morning as possible, that should alleviate sleep issues at night. When I first started taking pred I thought it was my miracle drug, I was full of energy and went 2 times/day, and had no side effects other than a bit of racing mind but I was quite okay with that...but as I weaned down, symptoms all came back...I was lucky to never get any major side effects from pred considering how common ones like weight gain and moon face seemed to happen to the majority....sadly though, the more times I went on it, the less effective it became until it stopped helping all together, now I'm no longer responsive to it...but it was great when it worked.

Best of luck to all of you and remember to try taking the whole dose first thing in the am so you can sleep at night.