Predisone

[Kendra2276]

Hello.

The only option the doctor could give be to treat the ulcers in the terminal ileum is predisone.

The predisone is working. I have less right side pain. However I am experiencing horrendous side effects. Headache and dizziness. Feeling weak.

I am 100% torn. I want to keep taking the meds to allow my side to heal but at the same time the side effects are killing me.

Not to sure what to do. Ultimately I will email GI. Taking the predisone for a month was suppose to help disprove or solidify that I have ibd.

Just feels like I'm complicating everything because my body hate the meds that they give me.

 

[ronroush7]

I hope the doctor will have something as effective without side effects

 

[shamrock15]

When is your course of prednisone supposed to end? A normal round should only have about a month left in it. I would hope he has some follow up plan for what he is doing at the end of the course. I do hope for you that the ulcers will be permanently gone at the end of it.

 

[Scipio]

Did you already try budesonide? Ulcers in the terminal ileum is the perfect target location for the Entocort formulation of budesonide. It's a steroid like prednisone but with significantly lower side effects.

 

[Glockola]

I was just thinking about Budesonide and then I saw Scipio already posted.
It would do the same job without the systemic side effects of prednisone.

 

[ronroush7]

I agree with Scipio and Glockola.

 

[tzvia]

yes, see about using entocort (budesonide)