Hoping some of you can remind me what symptoms usually come when tapering Prednisone, I'm going crazy trying to figure out if these are normal! Too much information on the Internet that isn't helpful when I try to search.
I'm down 2 30mg - tapering 5 a week from 40mg. I tapered Saturday to 30mg and Saturday boy was my heart racing! That seemed to subside on Sunday, but Sunday morning I was back to not having 'normal' BMs. No blood that I can see, but they aren't as formed as they had become. Not diarrrhea really, but just very small pencil thin BMs now again where they had been pretty 'normal' the past 2 weeks (finally!). My bottom seems pretty sore too but I don't think I have a hemorroid (which are common for me). Stomach is upset and achy.
Also not able to sleep again - I was finally sleeping through the night after starting up my Melatonin again but now I'm back to waking up over and over throughout the night. Also had SO many dreams/nightmares Saturday night - my car even drove off a cliff in one of them, geez! At LEAST that was only a dream :)
I'm having joint and muscle pains during the night too - that I do remember from the taper so that one doesn't surprise me as much. It does wake me up though which is very annoying.
I'm mostly worried about the small BM's now - still only going twice a day so the frequency hasn't picked up. But the general achiness in my stomach is worrisome too.
Will these symptoms happen every week when I taper and to they sound like normal tapering symptoms?
Thanks all!
Nikki