I visit my, very helpful, endocrinologist every three months. Yesterday we were discussing my medication and I was telling her that I was taking prednisone at around 2-4 am in the morning -when I got up . She asked me why take it at night? Well, I had a garbled expression as to how we think about it. Then she explains that lowest cortisol level is at midnight, and the body puts out cortisol at 4 AM. After she said that, I thought what’s the point of taking prednisone in the middle the night? Wouldn’t that be counterproductive to Stimulating the adrenals? In other words if cortisol is put out at 4 AM, then taking prednisone, during the night, would diminish adrenal stimulation.
My doctor, a woman by the way, was trained, at a very prestigious, adrenal center in New York City. She’s been immensely helpful with my other issue: reactive hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia, by the way, often goes along with adrenal insufficiency. Helped greatly by low carb diet. We also discussed a DEXA scan. This has been three years since I had one.
Who came up with the idea of wee early morning prednisone?