Steroids: Prednisone / Dexamethasone / Others (Oral and Injections)

Yes, unfortunately it's all in German.
It recommends that dose based on 'practical experience' - the European guideline actually rates this guideline as very unreliable.
Should have listened.
Gonna get a blood work now to check if everything is back to normal, still feeling hot flashes from time to time.

 

Damn. 250 mg is simply an insane dosage of prednisone. I have an autoimmune disease, and we're only talking like 40 mg with 80 mg being the max, granted for much more than 3 days. Even 40 mg gave me a boatload of side effects like anxiety, mood swings, high blood pressure, etc.

I am fully confident that I would go days without sleeping and have a panic attack on 250 mg.

 

I really feel you if you have to take this drug regularly. Stay strong!

Roughly one week after taking the dose, I'm sort of back to normal. My muscles/joints are still affected and I lost 5 kg, but it's slowly fading. The panic pulses are less frequent, and I don't spiral out of control anymore.

Now I'm actually glad that tinnitus is the only health issue I have. Damn, I'm one of those emotionally inept guys who didn't even cry when their father died, but that drug made me cry like a fucking baby.

 

No one has an in-between opinion of Prednisone (certainly no one who popped 250 mg!). It is either the single most critical drug in existence to help you or it just causes side-effects and gives you misery. I appear to need the drug, but I hate it. I hate being on it and I hate the withdrawal/rebound flare up from coming down from it.

 

60 mg of prednisone is quite a high dose... 250 mg sounds like crazy to me...