In my experience of taking pred it takes 3 days to impact and 3 days to leave in short term courses .longer term slow reduction is required in order to lessen side effe cts which can be severe dependant on length of time of prescription
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You are correct and quess most users have learned what suits them best. Personally I come off a 7 day or a longer course very slowly indeed.
That's right . you have to ween off of it. At my worst, I was on a high dosage of prednisone for a month (80mg a day). I showed the side effects of such a high dosage (weight gain, moon face). I was on prednisone, 40mg a day, for years. Which is really taking a risk having issues with my eyes. I was able to get weened off of it several years ago with the help of other meds.
I won't know if it's true, I thought I read it some where, that your body makes it's own prednisone and if you are on prescribed pred too long, your body quits making it.
Beth
If you are using prednisolone purely as part of a rescue pack for a week or two then there is no need to ween off them as your adrenal glands have not been compromised and no weening off period is required.