Is my sweating at night caused by the time I take my prednisone?

[singingloud]

For the past 4 months my sweating at night has increased. It seems to happen between 3-4 am and wakes me with beads of sweat running off my body.

I wondered if it caused by my timing of taking my prednisone. I take 5mg at 11:30pm and 6 or 7mg at 8am as I’m slowly going down to 11mg total.

I don’t wake with stiffness or pain but just the usual fatigue which sometimes feels like I’m walking through mud thigh high.

Thanks for your input.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

That used to happen to me - but not due to taking pred before bed. It seemed more to me to be the shedding of the inflammatory substances in the body.I suppose one way to investigate would be to take the pred at a different time?

[singingloud in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks I’ll give it a try. If I take 5mg at 2am when should I take the other 6-7mg dose? Thanks

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to singingloud]

Breakfast? Lunch? You will have to experiment a bit for what suits you best as well which way round - usually they say 2/3 in the morning but everyone is different and the 2am dose might make a difference. Splitting the dose often means you don't need to get up in the middle of the night for morning relief.

[singingloud in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks

I’ve split my dose from the beginning and it seems to work well for me.

Shedding the inflammation is probably what is going on.

I’m just happy that I don’t have pain doing the slow tapering method. What the previous rheumatologist told me to do always made me flare and have to start over at 15 again.