Day 7 on Prednisone...Here comes moon face

[fenway1971]

Hit the one week mark - on 40mg/day.

Not yet reached K-1 on my personal poop scale. Still in K-3. Better than before prednisone, but not markedly so.

Had a minor setback two days ago when flying for a business trip. Caught a cold on the plane then got food allergy to a protein bar I picked up at airport. Didn't realize my immune system was so low. The double whammy wiped me out. Stayed home today just to rest. Good news is cold got me fatigued enough to get over my insomnia from a few days earlier.

Today, I woke up to a moon face staring at me in the mirror. Kind of depressing. See doc in a week and have fingers crossed my symptoms improve.

Trying to keep spirits up! I haven't been to gym in 6 weeks. But, I'm going to rustle up the energy to go this weekend. Hoping that'll make me feel better.

Sorry to vent. Just feeling down. This disease sucks. I really dislike how steroids make me feel.

 

[amor151]

i can relate fenway...been at 40mg for 5 weeks now and i would'nt say i was mr.attractive with my moon face and chubby cheeks at the minute! steroids are a real pain but in the end they do their job, just have some annoying side affects attached with them.

its easy to get depressed while on the preds just try and stay positive, going to the gym sounds like a great idea i went for a swim for the first time in months the other week and it made me feel amazing. hopefully your feeling some positives from taking the steroids, if so try and focus on them and not the unfortunate side effects.