Prednisone

I was put on Prednisone for gout - brought about by my diuretics. It worked well but now I find that my body has developed a reliance on this drug and when I try to come off it I get issues with weight gain, breathlessness and flu like symptoms.

I have got it down from 40mg daily to 20mg daily but anything lower than that makes me ill.

Anyone else had this?

Ogilvie

[Rose54]

Hi

If you lower dose you should lose weight not gain it

Prednisolone can also cause breathlessness

You may just be getting withdrawal symptoms which can last a few days

You really need to speak to you GP

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Not had this issue myself but many with pericarditis seem to face something similar. The Facebook groups on pericarditis and pericarditis Uk have folks who are weaning / have weaned off this, seems it can take a whole.

They also talk about anti inflammatory meds like kinaret (I’ve not taken) and colchicine (which I’m on for 6m for pericarditis). I believe colchicine is also a gout anti inflammatory so wondering what your doc might say about that option?