#prednisone

[glittergroovy]

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[killadelphia]

grrrl appetizer 💊 😶‍🌫️ 🍰 🥤

[ulcerycolon]

[danepopfrippery]

Ppl think disability is a ‘vacation’ and I'm sweating my mandatory tits off from prednisone in Mexico but that's not enough. One Ac broke and the bed in the other room is hell.

So tramadol shot right in my neck. I have to break glass and load and line it up.

I hope my hoar mother feels it ten fold. She told me every day is a snow day for me cuz disabled. She also has never stopped saying I'm being dramatic if not out and out making it up (it also reached this point cuz medical neglect as a child).

Gods I hate those ppl

[sweaterkittensahoy]

By the way, I may completely disappear after I start prednisone tomorrow until I know how I react. It may be fine. But given the last time I as on maybe 30 mgs a day, and this time I will be on 60 mgs for 3 days, better to make a nice little nest and see what happens.

If we have been talking, and I go quiet, it's because the prednisone angry has definitely hit, and I prefer to save my best and meanest insults for people who deserve it. Which is not anyone I keep up with on a regular basis.

I have gummy Life Savers and several new books, including The Other Bennet Sister, so here's hoping I can just ride it out and not yell at Sean for standing up weird.

[chronically-crystal]

Autoimmune Gang❗️

prednisone fucking sucks am I right?

I can’t wait for this to end.

The most intense anxiety I’ve ever experienced in my life.

Godspeed soldiers 🫡

[macgyvermedical]

why is a steroid like prednisone (or prednisolone for cats!) so useful systemically?

in the last six months, I have taken steroids for migraine treatment, ear infection remnants, and a frustratingly long-lived chest infection. My orange cat takes prednisolone to treat his asthma and stomatitis flares.

(orange cat attached)

Prednisone is an old drug (it came out in 1955), and like a lot of old drugs, we've found a lot of uses for it. Prednisolone is a metabolite of prednisone, meaning it is created as prednisone breaks down in the liver. The active drug is actually prednisolone no matter which form it's taken in.

Prednisone is used to to replace the hormone cortisol, suppress the immune system, decrease swelling, and fight cancer. We know how some of this works, (for example, we know that it decreases the amount of certain chemicals (cytokines, thus decreasing swelling) and the number of circulating white blood cells (thus suppressing the immune system)). It's also really similar to cortisol, so it can replace it in people who don't make enough cortisol themselves.

Generally, it's used for either it's swelling-reducing properties (like for your ear infection and chest infection) or the immune-suppressing properties (your cat's asthma and stomatitis). When looking at why it works for migraines, I got 3 wildly different answers, so I think the reason is we don't fully know.

[rlinnl]

I have to take steroids cause my asthma decided to attack me and I’m scared out of my mind so yeah I just needed to type this lol. Pray for me 🥲

I’m being dramatic it’s probs gonna be fine but the stupid side effects list is freaking me the hell out