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Posted 1/22/2013 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
I have been on the pred. for about a month and had just tapered from 35mg to 30 and went to the gym to play pickup. Halfway through the game I couldn't focus on anything all of a sudden and whatever I looked at had a bright aura around it and I got lightheaded. This is the second time this has happened but the last time it didn't come with the vision problem. I took myself out of the game and went home quite scared.

Anyone experience anything like this before? I have successfully been on and tapered off pred while being active before but I was younger. I am a little scared to workout now so I will take a few days off.
Posted 1/22/2013 4:09 AM (GMT 0)
I too have had a similar experience. I had taken two weeks off from going to the gym and started to taper down from prednisone. After twenty minutes on the elliptical I had a shortness of breath and blurry vision. I too was scared. I took a few days off to let my system get use to the new dosage of prednisone. Soon enough I was back at the gym. Unfortunately I am going through an awful flare and has kept me out of the gym for almost three weeks sad. I think I am feeling brave and go tonight when it's not so busy ( the bathrooms are less busy at night). Good luck to you. I hope you are on the court soon feeling better.
Posted 1/22/2013 4:14 AM (GMT 0)
this has happened to me MANY times. i even went to the eye doctor for it but they said my eyes were fine. i think maybe it's from dehydration but i have no clue. it's happened to me about 10 times in the shower and i end up just sitting in the shower or getting out and sitting on the floor until it goes away. i also get ocular migraines with this disease.
Posted 1/22/2013 5:43 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you guys for the quick replies. I have been having eye issues for the last few months, but nothing like this and this is the second time this feeling has been triggered while playing hoops. I couldn't seem to focus on anything it was like a bright aura of light was everywhere in my line of sight no matter where id look and I could feel my body go into anxiety mode. It makes me feel alot better that this is common with other UC'ers. I will take a few days off after a taper which is sad because when am active at the gym its the only time I feel good and like my old self!

And how could I forget, I hope the both you find relief soon! I am in the middle of the worst flare I can remember and am worried about whats next. I just want to be myself again!

Post Edited (soldieroftafari) : 1/21/2013 10:53:19 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 1/22/2013 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
i used to panic when it happened, too, so i understand. i always call the flashes my "fireworks." nobody really knows what i mean, but that's how it looks to me. with my ocular migraines, i have to sit in a dark room for a few hours with an eye mask on. i had one last week and i couldn't read sentences. the ocular images were in my right eye and i had problems connecting my right eye with my left eye. this lasted for hours and was so annoying. every time i'd try to read something, it would look like this: " ajdfkj sdjfkadfj vdksjfakd fdjasfjk."

i just had a thought. it has happened when you worked out and your body temp was probably increasing. it happens to me in the shower which is hot. i wonder if it's a change in temperature that exacerbates it.
Posted 1/22/2013 5:55 AM (GMT 0)
that is a very interesting observation. I do recall a strange though weaker wave coming over me in the shower before no joke, but it wasn't as strong as it was at the gym. I guess I officially have ocular migraines now. I felt the need to post because I was reading another post while searching about an adrenaline crash from a bodies reliance to prednisone and someone said it could be fatal, that's what freaked me out. My hopefully incorrect assumption was that the more intense the game got the more I relied on my adrenaline and thats why I felt strange because its always when things pick up and im "warm". Your hypothesis about body temp makes much more sense.

Post Edited (soldieroftafari) : 1/21/2013 10:58:50 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 1/22/2013 11:29 AM (GMT 0)
It could be youre still A little anemic from your flare?
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