Nadine.Thomas@p1.f7.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Nadine Thomas) (04/25/91)
Index Number: 15147 >Nadine, I see what you mean about Prednisone being almost addictive. First >they tried to take me off at 10 milligrams, after all my symptoms returning >after a week, they took me back up. Yesterday I started dropping at 2.5 >millgrams >at two weeks at a time. I found my legs cramping over and over again, lower >side. They use to do that when I was in my teens but have not had a problem >with that until trying to reduce the steriods in probably 10 years! Try drinking gatorade ( personally like the orange flavored) and make sure you are getting lots of potassium - either in pill supplements or lots of foods high in it - broccoli, bananas, etc. - pill form is best. Take for at least 2 weeks and let me know how it is. >Blood sugar >is sky high at 256 on the last reading, well that is not sky high, but if it >stays there I'll get to add diabetes to my growing list of disease. Once >your >blood sugar shot up, did it ever come back down? What about the rest of you. > I don't want insulin too! Well maybe I want have the cramps again tonight. I had split my prednisone dose - some in the morning and some before bedtime. I did that on my own. Docs had a fit when they learned what I had done. Anyway, when I was dropping the dose I decreased and stopped the night dose. That showed a drastic drop in my morning blood glucose levels. So the answer is yes, I did find it dropping when I was reducing the prednisone. Since I am still on prednisone (morning dose only) I cannot tell you if my blood sugars would go back to normal or not if I was to stop taking the prednisone. You may need to take some insulin (maybe oral) to just keep your body from getting toxic (ketoacidosis) and starving itself. Take care. Nadine -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!300!7.1!Nadine.Thomas Internet: Nadine.Thomas@p1.f7.n300.z1.fidonet.org