A weird question about pred

[Cat-a-Tonic]

Okay, this is a little weird, and it might belong in the Zone - sorry in advance if this is slightly inappropriate, and admins, please feel free to move this if need be (I just PM'ed David because I lost the password to the Zone).

Here goes. My question is, can pred be transferred, even in small amounts, from one person to another during intercourse? My hubby recently had to take pred for a few days. He's got kidney stones and his urologist thinks that there's some inflammation keeping the big stone lodged in place, so hubby was put on 10 mg of pred for 3 days. Yesterday was his last day of pred.

So I noticed that I was feeling really jazzed yesterday for no good reason. My allergies were bad, my guts weren't super, and I was pretty fatigued. But for some inexplicable reason, I felt really happy and somehow I felt kind of great even though I really shouldn't have. Today I'm back to normal. I keep thinking, I felt so great yesterday, it felt just like it did when I was on pred! Is it possible that hubby transferred some of his pred mojo to me via intercourse?? Can that happen? I'm currently on Entocort which works for the most part, but it doesn't give me that crazy-great feeling that pred gave me, which was what I was feeling a bit of yesterday. I can't think of any other explanation for feeling like I did yesterday.

 

[Trev]

great sex can do that for you. what did you expect, im male.

 

[Astra]

How weird!
I think you just had a really cracking earth shattering bonk!

 

[Cat-a-Tonic]

LOL, Joan and Trev! Seriously, though, I've been with the man for like 12 years and he's great but he's never made me feel the way pred makes me feel! He's good but not superman, ha ha. Not putting hubby down in any way, I just don't think any man on earth is capable of replicating the feeling of pred. Joan, like you've described it, as a whizzing feeling, like my thoughts were rushing but I felt really great and a little crazy and lots of energy. I have described it in the past as feeling like a million bucks. That was how I felt all day yesterday! It had to be pred, right? The feeling wasn't as strong as when I was on pred, but it sure felt like pred.

It was funny, I asked hubby if he felt anything on the pred, like extra energy or insomnia or rushing thoughts - nothing! He felt normal on it whereas I feel like a superstar on it.

 

[beth]

Excellent one Joan!
And quite true, I think , sometimes you just need to do it.

I wouldn't have thought there would be enough pred transfered for you to notice. It's more likely endorphins, which are the bodies natural happy drugs, that lifted your mood, and energy/etc.

 

[Cat-a-Tonic]

Okay, I just had a thought. Does anyone remember that reality show The Osbournes, the one about Ozzy and his family? There was an episode where Sharon the wife was having chemotherapy for cancer and she told Ozzy they couldn't have intercourse for... I don't remember how long, several months at least, because it wasn't safe - the doctor had told her that some of the chemotherapy chemicals could transfer from her to him and could make him feel sick or affect him negatively.

So it IS possible, if that show is to be believed anyway, that medication can transfer from one person to another in this manner. And I'm pretty sensitive to pred - the first time I was on it I was only on 10 mg, and it made a huge difference for me - so I am still thinking it's possible that hubby transferred some pred to me. I wonder if my GI would know - think I'm going to ask him at my appointment next month!

 

[MADiMarc]

Well, that should be an interesting conversation! I need to transmute into that fly so I can hear it!

Speaking strictly as a woman married to the same wonderful man for 26 years...way to go Cat's hubby! Te-he. Seriously, though ask the doc see what he says. Who knows...

Michele

 

[sawdust]

How weird!
I think you just had a really cracking earth shattering bonk!

This made me snarf coffee. :rof: You always have such good slang, Joan.

 

[vonfunk]

Pred is basically a hormone after it's processed by the body. Which is why it causes some many side effects. I doubt it would transfer in big amount to cause changes.