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Posted 3/12/2014 3:38 PM (GMT 0)
Today is the start of my fifth day on prednisone. So far, improvement has been very slow. Consistently been going to the bathroom 6 times a day, with D and blood. The blood has seemed to decrease in comparison to when I started the medication on Saturday and occasionally I have gotten a more formed stool. Last night I didn't have to run to the bathroom multiple times, but when I had my BM in the morning there was more blood than I had yesterday morning... but maybe that's because I went to the bathroom only once in the morning versus two times at night plus once in the morning.

On Friday I'm seeing my GI and I'm supposed to tell her whether I've seen improvement so far and to make sure to let her know if I haven't seem improvement. I really hope this medication starts to kick in pretty soon. I don't know why, but I'm feeling a bit discouraged at this point. I know today's only the fifth day but improvement just seems so slow. I'm supposed to be on prednisone for 10 weeks, 3 weeks at 40mg, than taper 5mg per week until it's done, so I still have a long way to go!
Posted 3/12/2014 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
My second time on it took awhile before I saw improvement and it never got me fully into remission. Lots of butt meds did that.
Posted 3/12/2014 4:03 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah, I'm planning on starting my enemas again this Saturday. I was taking them every day initially before the pred, but I tried it last Saturday when I first started the prednisone, and omg, there was so, so much blood after that, so I wanted to wait until the inflammation goes down at least a little bit. I'm also taking 4 tablets of Mezavant daily. Also going to start on immunosuppressants soon once my GI gives me the okay.
Posted 3/12/2014 4:18 PM (GMT 0)
Good luck to you, I hope it kicks in soon...for me I noticed each time I went on pred it took longer and longer to "kick in" and by the 5th time I went on pred it did absolutely nothing for me....it stopped working all together and it was the only oral med that helped with giving me a bit of a break from my IBD.
Posted 3/12/2014 4:19 PM (GMT 0)
This is my first time on it!! Hopefully I'll never have to go on it again.
Posted 3/12/2014 5:24 PM (GMT 0)
Prednisone can take multiple weeks to have full effect. Hang in there and give it more time. Generally, you want to stay on prednisone until you are fully healed, or at least 90% healed. If you taper off of pred too quickly the you will flare up again, guaranteed. Keep in touch with your GI throughout this process. If you see symptoms return while tapering then hold your current dosage and call your GI right away.
Posted 3/12/2014 6:59 PM (GMT 0)
Well, so far today has been good. Only went to the bathroom twice when usually by now (mid day) I would have gone four times. I also went to the doctor today for some vaccines (tetanus and pneumonia, they didn't have flu). I wasn't going to do them right away because I wanted to think about it, but he made them sound really important to take when on prednisone!
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