Greetings all you wise members. I have a question about supplementation. I am 65 and currently have PMR and am at 9 mg. tapering. I also have osteopenia, not treating with fosamax but with calcium, K2, D, strontium, and magnesium. I also have a weighted vest and do weight bearing exercise. I take turmeric for my immune system and inflammation.
My question is- if your immune system is in "hyper drive" due to the PMR and you are trying to tone down the inflammation with prednisone, am I working against myself by taking a natural "immune booster" like turmeric?
One other unrelated question - I have been having vertigo, but read conflicting reports about prednisone and vertigo at a relatively low dose? Thinking that the vertigo is not connected to the PMR or prednisone?
Thanks again for your insights.
In this case turmeric is acting as an antiinflammatory. I look at it more as the immune system being deranged rather than in overdrive - don't know if that makes it different. SOmetimes a substance can do different things depending on the context. Do you feel it helps? Which is what matters!
You may be thinking about the vertigo as being part of adrenal function being slow to return - but that shouldn't be a problem yet at 9mg. It might be - but unlikely. As you say - can't blame it all on PMR and pred!
Thanks. I like the deranged immune system description more than hyperdrive - makes sense to me. I have had bad eczema for a few years before PMR, although much more now. My Dermatologist use to always say that my immune system was overactive. Guess maybe the prednisone is helping with the eczema a bit too- who knows. You get to a point where you are not really sure what is helping or hindering.