Nausea side effect

[Thelmarina]

Hi, I’m new to this Forum - migrated from Patient Access, which was brilliant until it made improvements which didn’t work! Keep things simple I reckon 😀.

I’m just out of hospital after a severe gastric attack with high temp and low blood pressure. Doc reckoned it was a side effect of Pred, I’m on 11mg at the moment, diagnosed June 2017. Has anyone else had this? I put it down to contact with gorgeous grandchildren, but if it’s Pred what am I supposed to do? Came like a bolt from the blue! Thanks for letting me ‘talk’ 😀 ps sorry about the nickname, tricky to find one no-one else had..

[SnazzyD]

Hello and welcome. Pred is associated with gastric irritation but the fact that you had a fever makes me think it was a bug, especially if it got better on its own. Also, if they think your symptoms, bad enough to hospitalise you, are due to Pred induced gastric erosion, are they going to do an endoscopy? I’m surprised this was their first assumption with that history but perhaps there are other aspects of it they were basing their diagnosis on. Anyway, hope you’re feeling better; sick bugs are the worst.

[Thelmarina in reply to SnazzyD]

Thanks so much. Yes, an endoscopy would have been helpful. I’d prefer to think it a bug unhelped by Pred rather than caused by it. And I’m recovering quite rapidly now. They increased my dosage because they said that the adrenals normally produce more cortisone to deal with infections, 22mg one day, 15 the next, back to 11mg the third day. I thought that useful to know for future illnesses. Sickness is horrible, Pred side effects are annoying but still preferable to the incapacity that was my life before diagnosis and relief!

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Dear lord - what will they blame on pred next? You probably caught it from the kids and the pred made it more difficult for you to fight off, I'll accept that, And the pred probably made the "-itis" less painful so it didn't appear as bad as it really was. But whatever pred does as a side effect it doesn't raise your temperature or trigger the infection itself.

PS - who were you "over there"?

[Thelmarina in reply to PMRpro]

Celia14153 - thanks for your reply. Does make more sense!

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

Didn’t you know pred was the cause of Brexit!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

More than likely...

[Thelmarina in reply to piglette]

Makes more sense than any of the other causes! 😉

[Constance13 in reply to piglette]

No! But I know Brexit has caused PMR - to future newbies maybe?

[SheffieldJane]

The onset of my PMR was heralded by vomiting and fever. Unfortunately on a long haul flight somewhere over Russia.

You may have a bug though, ‘ ‘tis the season to be poorly.

[Thelmarina in reply to SheffieldJane]

Thanks - you poor thing. What a place to get these horrid symptoms!!

[Telian]

Hello and welcome. I got that horrible bug just before diagnosis of GCA/PMR so Pred not the cause but the low immune meant couldn't fight it off. Never ate for 3 weeks...went on Pred shortly afterwards and made a miraculous recovery.. Get well soon.

[Thelmarina in reply to Telian]

Thanks - it’s tricky to know the cause of all these weird symptoms and sharing experiences helps. Glad Pred helped.