Prednisone

[Duck on Wheels]

Moodiness? Greaaaaaaaaaaaat. Like I'm not b!tchy enough already. I'm on 20mg/4 times a day for three days, then 3 times a day for 3 days, then 2 times etc. until I get down to 1 a day for 3 days.

snap 'moody, puffy, hungry' dragen

That's a moderate dosage and a short period of time. No need to panic. Like UKE, I've been on that dosage for months on end, then more months stepping down the dosage bit by bit. After some weeks, you can get the "moon face" symptom, where your face goes all puffy. But at 20mg per day, mostly what you may feel is energized. Last time I got put on prednisone (briefly, to knock a Crohns flareup into remission until a new drug I'd been put on reached therapeutic levels) my doc told me I should make the most of the energy and get some extra exercize in ... work out, ride further and faster. I wasn't having muscular/skeletal problems though. Your doc may not want you doing that. And of course, the down side was that, coming off the prednisone, I felt super tired for a couple weeks. Then that too passed and things normalized.