Interesting read

[Jenzzie18]

Just finished this. Interesting read for long term steroid users.

[Pebbles1012]

So what was the conclusions? That we all put on s ton of weight? Are emotional wrecks and immune suppressed ?

[Jenzzie18 in reply to Pebbles1012]

That was pretty much it yeah. I didn't pay much attention to the diet adaptions that the woman made. Was interesting when she interviewed her husband after she had come off them (she luckily had something that was curable with steroids and other drugs and was only on them 10 months) he was saying how different she was and suffered with anxiety etc. X

[PMRPete]

"Synopsis:

Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection.

In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed prednisone for a rare lung disease, she teamed up with her sister, Harvard physician Julie Ingelfinger, to write the first book that helps patients deal with the side effects of the prescription.

This welcome update to a superb resource―which is still the only book on the subject― covers the latest knowledge about bone health, the use of steroids for children, and new steroid compounds, along with additional strategies and exercises based on their own experiences and responses from other patients and physicians."

abebooks.co.uk/Coping-Predn...