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though why after 3 tears of being ok I don’t know why.
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I’ve been back on pred for not even two weeks and I’m driving myself crazy! I don’t know how anyone else can stand me : ) This should be interesting with my daughters 4th birthday coming up on Saturday, with 11 kids running around at Chuck E. Cheese’s!!!! I hope that I don’t get in one of my pred "moods". AAARGH!!! Be well- Tracy CD class of ‘98 my homepage: http://home.talkcity.com/ParadiseDr/goodboie/index.html : ) smile – it makes people wonder what you’re up to!
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Hi Mark i was on pred for 3 years I started at 40 mg per day, got it down to10mg after 3years on a gradual reduction, then took a Psychotic reaction, the doctors put it down to the prednisalone, though why after 3 tears of being ok I don’t know why. — For-pay Internet distributed processing. http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=62477 For my web page goto http://www.280millcroft.fsnet.co.uk
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Denis : ) Don’t worry, I will never go back on Prednisone, My joints hurt so much some days from the use of them … and I can sleep like a normal person MARRIED WITH CHILDREN http://community-2.webtv.net/DKLAWTON/MARRIEDWITHCHILDREN/
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Denis I think I made up already for all the bad times I gave you and the boys !! Didn’t I … and you better had said YES !!! MARRIED WITH CHILDREN http://community-2.webtv.net/DKLAWTON/MARRIEDWITHCHILDREN/
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Yes You made up for it but I feel sorry for the families of people on LONG term Pred. It might work at first but the Long term effects take over….Psychotic is a very mild word…I know we were close to putting you out to pasture for good…but you made up for it know….if the doctor ever wants to give you pred again tell him you have to move in with him.
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I think a better question is….Is there anyone out there who has not experienced being psychotic on pred? LOL
Being psychotic isn’t normal?! I thought everyone was that way. I don’t remember liife before prednisone. Miss Kitty, who wonders what adolecse4nce without prednisone woulld’ve been like
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I think a better question is….Is there anyone out there who has not experienced being psychotic on pred? LOL
Me. Fat and depressed, yes. Psychotic, no. Be well, Hadass — Hadass Eviatar Winnipeg, Canada http://www.superhwy.net/~eviatar
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Hmmm …. I didn’t see the mood changes , BUT my family did …. I thought they were out of their minds when they told me that I had a evil twin sister disguising herself as myself …. I just didn’t see it !! I thought it was the family that just got moody !! But, now that I am pred free, I can look at it realistically, and I am so thankful that my husband and sons stuck with me during and after those times as I really was BAD to them !! MARRIED WITH CHILDREN http://community-2.webtv.net/DKLAWTON/MARRIEDWITHCHILDREN/
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Hi Mark Nothing serious here…Just want to kill people when on pred!! For me it’s worst between 40 and 15 mg, and besides the aggression it gives me a sort of restless energy that can’t be turned into anything useful. It just has to be burned of with physical activity – that helps you to sleep at night btw. I’ve been of pred for more than 3 months now and doing fine on Imuran. I’ve promised myself never to go back on pred again…until next time. Take care Lars from Denmark CD class of 98
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Very well said Steve !!! (like always)…. Cheryl
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Maryjo, You were not that bad to us, we will forget in time….like 10-20 years….its getting better….the doctors said we have PTSD (living with a person on prednisone) Hmmm …. I didn’t see the mood changes , BUT my family did …. I thought they were out of their minds when they told me that I had a evil twin sister disguising herself as myself …. I just didn’t see it !! I thought it was the family that just got moody !! But, now that I am pred free, I can look at it realistically, and I am so thankful that my husband and sons stuck with me during and after those times as I really was BAD to them !!
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I was on pred for 7 months in 1996. I had severe mood swings, along with insomnia and problems with my voice. I was on 60mg for about 4 weeks, 40 mg for 6 weeks, and 30mg for 8 weeks, before weaning down and off completely. I recall that the side effects were most severe at the higher doses, but I still expereienced them at 20mg and even at 10mg.
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Mark well according to my sweet supportive spouse, the psychological problems were evident within a week or so and I was on low dose prednisone for 15 months … and it was about 2 weeks after fully being weaned before the Prednisone Evil Twin went away !! Maryjo – who buried her Evil Prednisone Twin over a year ago !! MARRIED WITH CHILDREN http://community-2.webtv.net/DKLAWTON/MARRIEDWITHCHILDREN/
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Hi Mark, My son (16) has been on pred (started at 40 and is now at 80mg a day) for almost 3 weeks. He’s noticed bursts of impatience, irritation and some depression that come on suddenly since about the 3rd day he was on it. Before that he was always very calm and even tempered. He’s had back, knee and head aches the past few days, and we’re thinking the pred is causing them. Have you had any of that type of reaction? Also, we are wondering if the puffiness, "moon fact" type of reaction comes gradually of if it would already have happened if he were going to experience it. ??? June
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I think a better question is….Is there anyone out there who has not experienced being psychotic on pred? LOL Staci
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Hi Mark, When I was on Prednisone I stayed the same! It was everyone else that got weird? LOL Just kidding. With the exception of an abundance of energy there was no noticed behavioral changes with myself. If a person is normally more moody than average (whatever that is?) then the Pred. may amplify this characteristic. If the individual is stable to begin with I doubt it would be the cause of any mental disorder. Between 1989 and 1999, I took Pred. for over 4 years on and off. I remember that the effects were more pronounced the first time I took Pred. With each course it became less effective. The body gets use to it after a while as with most drugs. I didn’t experience any dark moods from Pred. (I liked The Smiths/Morrissey & Depeche Mode before I took any Pred. LOL) Quite the opposite. If anything it gives you a sense of well-being. It may be a false sense, but you feel better anyway! Feel well. William CD Class of 89-99
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Hi Mark: I was on Pred for 5yrs, fluctuated back and forth with dosages, from 12 pills to 1 a day. As with some of the other replies., it can be nasty. Mood swings, face becoming one large blob, night terrors to thoughts of ending it all. The last sent me to GP and some interesting chats with a shrink. Finally I changed GI’s and was taken off with the promise of never again unless it crucial with a short time span. I am also paying the price of long term use with bone loss in spine and hips. Be careful and report any weird side effects to your Doc. Debbi (keep smiling)
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I didn’t have any psychotic effects from pred when I was taking 160 mgs a day. But that was while I was having chemo for lymphoma. My biggest problem in those days was the dash from the couch to the toilet (about 5 metres) on all fours before the D occured. Now if I had made that trip without making a mess I think I would have deserved an olympic gold medal. On 2nd. thoughts, maybe my wife should have got the medal for doing all the cleaning up after me 
( John H(I)
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Be careful with pred–it can cause serious psychotic effects. Remedies include zoloft and haldol. if you feel violent or suicidal, contact your doctor immediately, or go to an emergency room.
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First of all, let’s distinguish what "psychotic" effects are, and there are generally two types: hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations are just what you think — seeing things, hearing things, tasting things, smelling things, or feeling things on your skin or inside your body — that aren’t really there. Delusions generally come in two flavors, paranoid and grandiose. A paranoid delusion is a feeling that someone is out to get you, that someone doesn’t like you, that people are staring at you, that they can "hear" your thoughts, etc. A grandiose delusion is a feeling of inflated self-importance or ability, such as a belief that you are very important or have the power to fly or broadcast your thoughts. Incidentally, there is an argument that suggests that if you believe that you’re important enough that people are out to get you, that your actually having a grandiose delusion. Big deal! But it does make a difference in knowing whether your patient is liable to think you’re out to get him or her as opposed to just thinking they’re more powerful than you. I could go further and say that some forms of disorientation are kind of considered psychotic — when people exhibit such symptoms as babbling, not knowing where or who they are, or if they refer to common objects using the wrong words (consistently! Not just forgetting what the word is, but actually believing the word is something else). Let’s not confuse these symptoms with affective symptoms — or mood disorders. Severe mood swings can bring about psychotic symptoms, but they are a different thing. Incidentally, being paranoid can also make one pretty depressed. Psychotic symptoms are fairly rare with prednisone use, especially at low doses, but they are certainly possible with as low a dose as 10mg. They worsen with a higher dose, but they usually ease off as the dose is lowered and discontinued. Usually. Sometimes they can create a serious psychotic disorder that persists even after the steroids are discontinued. Usually. steve (H) Has anyone here had any experience with the psychological effects of pred? I’m wondering what effects, at what dosage level, and after how long being on it…
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Has anyone here had any experience with the psychological effects of pred? I’m wondering what effects, at what dosage level, and after how long being on it…
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I was on pred, from doses as high as 60 mg/day (but I was only at 60 mg for a brief time). I don’t recall the exact details of how long I was at what dosage, but for awhile there I was between 25 and 40 mg and I think that’s when I experienced most of my side effects. And there were a ton, lemme tell you, not just psychological. But as for the psychological: I had severe (dark!) mood swings, was bitchier than normal (haha), and had strange, disturbing nightmares. These eased off, as did the other side effects, as I got to lower (15 mg or less) dosages. Mind you, then I had to deal with the withdrawl effects, but these were mainly headaches and fatigue. Everyone is different, though. The above is only my own experience. Hopefully yours (if you’re on it) will be kinder. Jennifer UC 99
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