Prednisone side effects
 

Has anyone else taken 1250mg Predisone?
I was wondering what kind of side effects you experienced.
Tracy

whenever I've had prednisone for any reason, it makes me hungry. Might make me a little grumpy. Gives me some energy. Sometimes I've gotten fatigue, but that might have been related to the particular flare I had at the time.

I've taken it in high doses by IV for vision related stuff, and taken it as a short course of oral prednisone for non-vision related stuff. (the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial recommends that you do IV steroids for vision related flares)

I've also had a couple of extremely low dose oral prednisone for pain relief when I had frozen shoulder about a year and a half ago. (frozen shoulder was NOT ms related. Probably got that from a nurse giving me a flu shot in the wrong spot on my arm). Even the extremely low dose prednisone made me hungry. But it was awesome for the pain from the frozen shoulder. Was the only thing that controlled the shoulder pain. Morphine didn't even touch the shoulder pain, but the prednisone was awesome.

IV administered does nothing to me for side effects, bit oral administered knocks me out cold on my *** for some reason.

Hi Tracy.:). I haven't had pred. for awhile, but it always made me a jittery wreck,
and sleepless in Ohio.:D. It didn't always work in stopping the MS flare,
so I stopped taking it.

Hope it works for you!!!:hug:

I just came off a five day course of IVSM (1 gram/day) and I've decided that anything can be a steroid side effect!! I got a red moon face, was terribly emotionally unstable, tired at times but wide awake at others, and my vision went blurry. Just got over he crash yesterday which basically felt like I was dying. Also had to pee all the water out that accumulated in me. I has relief from my leg spasticity for about 5 days. It's back now.

Well the prednisone didn't help at all that I can see.
My eye still hurts, and my vision is still bad. I spent the last five days feeling like a low voltage electrical current was running through me, and oh so dizzy.
This was no fun at all.
I hope I get some answers from my MRI last week and the one tomorrow.

Steroids can cause vision problems temporarily so maybe give it some time? I know that's way easier said than done :(

Was it oral steroids, or IV steroids that they prescribed? Optic neuritis responds better to IV steroids, but it doesn't always help, and it's not an instant fix. It takes time for the inflammation on the optic nerve to back off.

Steroids can lessen the time that it takes for a flare to back off, but it doesn't have any effect on the final outcome of the flare. Sometimes the flares do damage that can't be fixed by the steroids. But, everything that I've ever read about optic neuritis is that it usually tends to recover. With or without steroids. Just takes longer without it.

I've had optic neuritis a few times, and it takes awhile for it to recover without steroids. (took me a year the first time without the steroids). The second time, with IV steroids, it took about two months. The last time I had optic neuritis, I had IV steroids again, and it took probably five months for it to get as close to normal as I could.

Whenever I've had steroids for optic neuritis, it's always been IVSM. I don't have any experience with using oral steroids for optic neuritis.

MS has been trying to teach me patience, and I absolutely HATE to wait for things. I still have no patience for waiting out a flare.