Aggression and steroids

I remember being on high dose pred. It gave me a better understanding of the "going postal" mentality. I have the longest fuse in the world but on pred I had a very short fuse. There were several times where my fuse went off but the thing I remember most was being so enraged I wanted to kill someone for a fairly minor offense. On that occasion I had enough self control but it was like my mind was being invaded by an alien and the real part of me could see the postal part of me and thinking at the time that now I finally had an undestanding of what truly whacko people felt inside and it was very scarey.

I'm not sure what to take. What kind of doctor do I need to see for this?

I will actually lay it off in a month so I'm halfway through.

soystud said...
"I'm not saying that you are not affected by pred. I'm saying that you should train and get the tools you need to control it."


so let me get this straight - i was supposed to plan in advance of getting deathly ill, being placed on a drug i've never been on before, and then proceeding to almost rip a co-workers head off because he asked me to explain something to him ?

ya, ok - i get it - what was i thinking -

i'll start planning for my next unknown chronic disease !

No, you are supposed to react to the present and plan for the future. When you are noticing a medicine effecting you in a negative way mentally then you just don't ignore it and take your aggression out on others. If you need to go on pred again, how prepared are you? Will you react the same?

I don't want to be insulting here but it is not a complicated thing I'm proposing here.

beatUC said...
apparently some of our meds cause judgmental, moronic posts to appear!

Yeah, nearly hitting or killing other drivers on the road because you can't bear to wait for 30 seconds at a Stop sign is such an okay thing to do!

The number of people who suffer side-effects of aggression and psychosis from steroids in medical studies: 5%. The number of people who suffer from 'roid rage on HW: 95%.

I meant other posters, not you. Specially, I was replying to the 'judgemental, moronic posters' bit of your post. Yeah, okay, I do judge other drivers who nearly kill other people through their own rage! If I'm a moron for judging them, so be it. I'd rather be a moron than somebody who couldn't control myself when driving. Bad as driving drunk, imo.