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Posted 5/23/2013 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
I did some searching on the forum to reduce gas while on prednisone but didn't find any good answers.

I am on my 9th day and last two days since I was upped from 30 mg to 40mg it has got worse. I pass a lot of gas during bowel movements with of course blood splattering all over the toilet. I just had three episodes of this in the last 3 hours each with mild cramping. I don't feel bloated. Lunch time BM is solid but is ribbon like with fresh blood but starts of with passing a lot of gas first.

I took 20mg at 5:00AM and 1:00pm today... typically the meds wear off around 10:30pm-11:00pm and the cramping and bloody diahrrea hits me. So have a couple of hours to go.

Should I increase the amount of water I drink or any other good home remedies to reduce this gas?

-Thanks

Posted 5/23/2013 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
Night was bad.... didn't sleep a wink.... kept having hourly painful cramps with B and D with lots of gas... feeling completely drained out and fatigued. The colocort stayed in less than hour and had no effect. Going to try to get started on low dosage of iron supplements ... I was slighlty anemic in last week's blood test ... so e-mailed my doc and he said its ok to take some iron supplements... but I can expect nausea, cramping and constipation... well gee!
Posted 5/23/2013 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
How is your diet?
Posted 5/23/2013 6:42 PM (GMT 0)
I take glucerna in the morning 6:00am.... rice/tortilla/steamed veggies/mac and cheese for lunch... rice/noodles/pasta dinner I eat bread and bananas too if i feel like it occasionally... seems like i constantly have some weird mettalic taste in mouth throughout the day.. so don't feel like eating a lot of things... I am a vegetarian... have never consumed meat products.
Posted 5/23/2013 8:15 PM (GMT 0)
The taste in your mouth came after the prednisone? It does weird things to my tongue. Everyone reacts differently to foods but I would stop drinking the glucerna and eating steamed veggies and dairy. See if that helps your gas.
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