Entocort Mental Symptoms?

[Orchid]

I was on a course of Prednisone for my Crohn's Disease not too long ago. I suffered serious mental symptoms such as random uncontrollable sobbing, panic attacks, and paranoid thoughts. Given this and the fact I'm already considered at risk for psychotic illness my GI and therapist both agreed I cannot take Prednisone again. The question here is: how many others who suffered mental symptoms on prednisone also suffered them on entocort?

 

[joeyme1]

When I was a teen, I was on a lot of prednisone and had mood swings, anger, moon face, acne, etc. I've been on Entocort for 6 months and have had no side effects.

 

[rrhood1]

I was the proverbial *itch on wheels when I was on steroids. I had to get my boss to review my correspondence in case I insulted a client. I had uncontrollable rages about nothing. I'm so glad I don't have to take it.

 

[JDTM]

I had a pretty rough go with budesonide (generic Entocort) the first time around, but I may have just been severely depressed/upset after my Crohn's diagnosis -- the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. I can't say with any certainty whether or not the budesonide had anything to do with it, but I stopped taking it initially because I thought it threw me for a loop. That said, I've since been taking Prozac, which "leveled me out," and I've had no troubles with budesonide ever since. I tried taking it again and took the full dose, weaned off, and stayed pretty healthy for a while there! I've even taken a couple of short courses here and there to beat down smaller flares, and it seems to do the trick.

 

[Orchid]

I don't medicate my psychosis, it's treated entirely with CBT but constant wearing down on your emotions drains your ability to apply it and medication is not something I'm willing to pursue for my possible schizophrenia since my CBT works so well without prednisone.

 

[Lulabelle]

It's a really tough one but at least you know you can't take pred anymore. Entocort may be better for you as less is absorbed into the blood stream.
Aside from medication talk, have you ever been to meditation classes? I went for the 1st time yesterday evening and I really enjoyed it and know just from that one session that I will gain so much from it. The man guided us through a meditation and said we will all be aware of how busy our mids are and how it is difficult to calm that but with practice we can quieten our minds and control things more for enhanced wellbeing. He also talked about positive thinking and being able to let things go as feeling and thoughts pass without harbouring them. It may be something helpful for you

 

[Orchid]

I suppose I should give an update. I have been on budesonide for nearly a month now and my partner and I have noticed no mental side effects, Infact I cannot pinpoint a single budesonide side effect. So glad my health insurance covers the drug's extortionate price of 14.44 per pill. I take three a day and there's ninety in a bottle. It's up there with biologics.

Lulabelle, I am aware of mindfulness techniques and I've used them in my life already as part of my psychosis treatment.