How quickly does prednisone work Videos

Re: side effects.Avoiding starchy refined carbs and sugars (bread, pasta, cereal, sweets) helps cut ravenous hunger, food cravings and weight gain. Try to take prednisone the same time every morning to avoid insomnia.

Do you have any idea the harm these drugs do to the body? You should teach on that, or learn about it first if necessary. Straight up poison my friend 

your cute :) and good job on your videos!

Is there a way to get your body to reduce it's own inflammation, another words, get it to produce that chemical from the adrenal gland or something like that... , through some type of diet or treatment that doesn't require daily use of meds like Prednisone. I know very little about all of this and I find myself in dire need of anti inflammatory meds to reduce pain so I'm learning all I can to try to reduce dependency on these types of meds...you seem alot more educated than me, and it can't hurt to ask, right?

thank u so much for this video it really help me out in my pharmacology presentation.

Just a question, "increased inflammation cases decreased perfusion" ... can you explain a bit further since I thought the inflammation was caused by the vessels widening to bring in the extra blood cells to fight infection and I thought that would bring in more RBC which carry O2 which I thought would result in increased perfusion

Thanks, this was very helpful. I will try this tomorrow when its time to take the pred, to wait a few hours later.

I have Myasthenia Gravis and started my taper last Friday. I have been on 20mg daily since June of last year when I was diagnosed, and recently did a sudden taper to 15mg. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go down to 10mg and I'm terrified. My knees are hurting, my teeth are hurting, Ive been having migraines, been nauseated. This is terrible. I blamed throwing up Monday on running my IVIG treatment too quickly but I'm almost thinking it could also be partly due to withdrawl. Ugh :( Are you off prednisone now?

Wow, I'm surprised at what Youtube has, and thought I'd search for info concerning Prednisone. I've watched some of your videos, and weaning is of interest. I've used Prednisone for more than 30 years, and feel that it should've never been prescribed for the small rash I had. The info that now is public, wasn't available then, so I'm screwed. But, maybe there's some hope still, so your technique for weaning maybe what I need. I've been on 5mgrs for nearly a year, and about two months ago, I started weaning myself off it. I have a trach, and mucus is a real issue, so I was prescribe 10mgrs. After about a couple weeks, I reduced it to 5mgrs, and it was noticeable, but I knew I didn't want to stay at 10mgrs. I started reducing to 4mgrs for a 2 weeks, than 3 for 2 weeks, until none. The mucus is again a real problem, and its hard to swallow food, and I was going to try and stick it out. I'd mentioned my wanting to wean myself off to my doctor, but he really didn't explain ho weaning should be done. I'm going to try your technique, so thanks. Its scary how my more than probable rash was due to allergies, and a doctor, rather than spend some effort trying to find out my issue, started me on Prednisone. This drug has ruined my life. What really caused me to watch your videos was how you lost weight. Initially, I was really athletic and muscular, and Prednisone only added to my look, so like an idiot, I took more than told. After realizing my temper was out of sync, I researched Prednisone, and was scared at what I found. I went cold turkey, and it nearly closed my airway, and ever since, I've had issues with my airway. I now have a trach, numerous food allergies, and I've lost many teeth. Like you, I've refined my diet, and its helped. I'm down to 130 lbs, and barely recognize me.

I am tired of being on Prednisone. My moon face drives me nuts. I have to admit though its not that bad compared to what I have seen. I guess I have been lucky. I went from when I was on 30 mg I decided to go down to 20 mg and I did half weeks at each dose. So halfway through the week I went down to 15mg, then 10mg. I am now on 5 mg and I am going to try skipping a day, see what happens.

Improves the inflammation. I had the injection. It made it way worse. Herniated discs. Crumbling spine from overuse of steroids. With sarcoidosis, it took 1&1/2 years to get diagnosed, so I was on 120 mg prednisone for almost two years, plus methotrexate, plaquenel, azothiaprine. I'm still on steroids 7 years later. I up the steroids above the magic '10' mg when I get inflamed. Usually my eye goes blind first before my back pain gets into swing. I did have discectomy n could walk immediately upon waking. Steroids are a dirty dirty life saving drug.

Good, informative video Doc! But what is going on with your background? I personally found it really distracting, but thank you for this upload, keep them coming!

Wow Pred for 3 weeks, I bet their gut loved that. 

The doctors are failing to inform Prednesone will shut down your vital to life adrenal glands by what is known as HPA axis suppression. Call (416) 230-3727 for more information about undisclosed harmful adrenal effects.