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Side Effects of Steroids / Predisone Withdrawl
It is possible but somewhat unusual for the muscle spasms to be caused by prednisone withdrawal. But you might want to see your doctor for a tapering dose of prednisone and ......
Steroids and pregnancy
Dear Maresa, Steroids are quite safe in pregnancy. We use prednisone routinely in pregnant women with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. We always want to keep the dose as low as possible, ......
Corisone Shots and High Blood Pressure
Injected corticosteroids have the potential to enter systemic circulation and increase blood pressure. The effect is typically transient. In general, the risk of raising blood pressure by giving a steroid injection ......
STEROIDS
Carefully and slowly. If your RA remains active you may need a medication or increase in medication to replace the effect of the steroids. In rare cases, after so many years ......
Arthritis Treated with Prednisone
Many patients with inflammatory arthritis such as RA are kept on low dose prednisone (5 to 10 mg daily) for many years. Patients tolerate prednisone differently and thus the decision to ......
Arthritis and Prednisone
I agree that taking prednisone at those doses over a long time can cause serious, even life threatening side effects. Every attempt needs to be done to get you on a ......
Cortisone shots for OA in the knee
This is an inexact science, but I limit the injections to once every 6 months and at most 3 times a year for OA joints. Steriods can weaken the ligament and ......
steroid round face
There is no exact answer. Since you were on steroids for such a short period of time, I would expect that the "moon facies" or "chipmunk cheeks" to resolve rather rapidly ......
RA and Osteoporosis
RA itself can also cause osteoporosis. I do not know how long it has been known that prednisone and to a lesser extent methotrexate can cause osteoporosis, likely as long as ......
long term prednisone vs methotrexate for pmr
This depends on how well you tolerate prednisone and if you have other conditions (diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, herat disease, obesity) that might be worsened with prednisone. In general, if ......
Cortisone injections
It depends why your wrist is hurting. If you have a structural or non-inflammatory wrist problem then injetion often does not help. inflammatory problems such as gout or pseudogout often responds ......
Re: Prednisolone curse???
The side effects of corticosteroids should resolve by 6 months. Weight gain however often persists because the weight is gained by increased food intake. Dieting and exercise should be done regularly. ......
Lupus/High Blood Pressure
There are a variety of therapies for lupus skin flares including hydroxychloroquine, dapsone, topical therapies and prednisone. See your rheumatologist. Your blood pressure needs better control. Blood pressure can be hard ......
How Much Prednisone
The problem is not increasing and decreasing but with amount of prednisone taken over time. It is clearly beneficial to use the lowest possible dose of prednisone for the shortest period ......
Re: steroid injections and hip osteoarthritis
Unfortunately, I can't comment on your specific situation, but in general injections of cortisone into joints are well tolerated and are associated with very few side effects. Weight gain would be ......
Safe Level of Prednisone
This is a tough question. There is increasing evidence on the negative effects of low dose prednisone. But I do not think this is a black and white issue. Low dose ......
Tappering off Prednisone
Prednisone should be tapered slowly and the addition of other medications such as MTX should help to reduce the prednisone....
Too Much Prednisone?
It is a moderate dose, but too high a dose to be used long term for RA because of side effects. Talk to your doctor about increasing MTX or the addition ......
RA and Prednisone
The tenderness is likely a milder version of your RA pain that is returning with the taper of prednisone. You may want to be careful not to taper prednisone too rapidly ......
Safety of Steriod Injections
The risk and benefit of the steroid injections has to evaluated in the context of how severe your disease is and whether or not the alternatives are working. It sounds like ......
Prednisone and High Blood Pressure
Your blood pressure should be better off of prednisone, but still may be high. You may have a tendency to have high blood pressure that was merely brought out by the ......
Steriod Injections for the Knee
It is difficult to predict how long a steroid injection into the knee for osteoarthritis will last. Some patients get only a few days of relief, others can last months. In ......
Tapering off Prednisone
It depends on why you were given prednisone and the risk that your disease will flare. It is not too fast if the object is merely to get you off of ......
Prednisone & Weight Gain
The difficulties losing weight should lessen over several weeks after stopping prednisone....
Re: Tappering off Prednisone
The general answer is yes likely, but discuss with your doctor....
Medications causing high blood pressure
Yes, both can increase blood pressure. The only way to tell is to stop one and see what happens to your blood pressure. Remember that weight gain also increases blood pressure. ......
RA Flare
Obviously you need to discuss this with your doctor. In general, short courses of prednisone are safe and effective to treat RA flares, but the goal of therapy is to keep ......
Autoimmune Disease Affects Cholesterol
The big issue is prednisone use and the elevation of cholesterol. I am not aware of the disease itself or any of the other commonly used immunosuppressive medications increasing cholesterol levels. ......
Prednisone, how much is too much
Let see if I can work through some of your questions:1. There is no "safe" dose of prednisone. Prednisone over time increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and infection. It ......
Weaning from Prednisone
You may stop prednisone at 5 mg daily without any difficulty....
