Prednisone and eating

I took pred for the first time yesterday and i felt like a whole new person that's able to actually function haha. Then around 5ish or 6 ish my stomach started to cramp up... didn't have to go to the bathroom.. just crampy (it might have to do with my period..might not...usually don't have cramps in the 4th or 5th day.) Well I hadn't eaten after eating in the morning with the pred.


I've eaten more today because I want to see if it makes a difference on how my stomach feels when on this med.


Has anyone else noticed that pred works better if they eat more? OR just in general if you have UC.. do you find that if you DONT eat your stomach gets worse?

I am doin what the dr said to do and I'm takin 4 10mg pills in the morning with food... and my lialda in the morning also

40mg at once? Wow!

I wonder if the pred is starting to wear off later in the day and that is why you are getting crampy. I always split my doses (half in am, half after dinner) until I got under 20.

Geez, I was on 80mg at once. 40 was almost normal after that. Amazingly though, I never got hungry while on the pred when I was doing scd, but once i started eating crap again, I was ravenous. I did have a HUGE problem with my pred making it through the day at any dose. It would work for about 6 hours and stop. When I split the dose, same thing.
I did take a small stint of pred, 40 one day, 30 the next, then 20, 10, 5, each day. I was eating total crap, the worst food I could find, and it worked better. When I was taking the 80mg and so forth for a longer time, I didn't crave food, was still sick, and wasn't eating anything, and it wasn't working. When I tried the 5 day short trip, I had been eating more, got depressed, and decided to eat sick or not. And it worked, go figure.
I have decided I have no idea how pred works...total crap shoot for me.

Thank goodness I started remicade so now I won't ever have to experiment to find out!

I always felt better if there was something in my guts for them to chew on. If I didn't eat, I'd end up with monsterous cramps!

I've always split up my pred dose above 20mg. It keeps it more even in your system. However, like Kelly said, it kept me up at night. However, any pred dose gave me insomnia. Then as I was tapering I was SO tired, but couldn't sleep. Vicious circle...

Try to have a snack every couple of hours and see if that helps :)

I've always been told to take them before about 9am as that's when your body would have naturally created the hormone (that pred is based on) for the day. For me, that let me sleep the best, although at 40mg like you, I used to only sleep about 3 hours a night anyway.

Watch out for those pred munchies - I used to double check if the hunger came from my head, in which case that was the pred talking, or my stomach, in which case it might be genuine hunger.

I'm so glad you are feeling better and being treated. I was really worried when you posted the other day that you'd been advised to go to ER but couldn't afford it. Thanks for coming back to let us know how you are.

thanks guys.. i feel better bout takin it in the morning now and i think i do have to reallly eat with it because i swear i took the meds and took like 2 bites of cereal and decided i didnt like it and i guess the meds work fast cuz my stomach started goin crazy then i ate a tortilla and it stopped immediately and started working.. craziness. I think also that this pred is makin me tired instead of keeping me awake.. i slept till noon today after takin meds at 8 and woke up all sweaty and ive not been able to sleep that long in ages.