Prednisone question

[Lam123]

Does anyone know how long it takes for your body to adjust to being off prednisone? I stopped taking it Friday, but my knees are bothering me a bit today. Not sure if it's my body hasn't adjusted yet to being off prednisone.

 

[tzvia]

Not sure how long it takes, but when I wean off, I usually buy a bottle of Gaia brand Adrenal support to help get my adrenals functioning again. I think it helps, but not sure about the knees

 

[Lam123]

Whenever I weened off and went down a pill it took a few days for my body to adjust.

 

[Lam123]

I was sitting a lot today aswell, so not sure if that's the cause aswell.

 

[Alley2231]

I've been off of it for 2.5 weeks and I've noticed a lot of joint and muscle pain since the first day off Prednisone.

It's funny...I complained a lot to my GI doctor about the joint and muscle pain, he tells me it's due to the Prednisone, I get off of it and it gets worse.

I see my GI in a week with my Remicade infusion, I'm definitely bringing it up!

 

[Lam123]

Mine is very mild. My everyday activities aren't really affected, other then at the gym I can't go on the treadmill, I have to stick to swimming or the bike. But the knees also don't feel 100%, but I'm not sure if expecting the knees to feel completely normal is a realistic expectation. I wonder if this is as good as it's gonna get? My GI mentioned switching my Imuran to methotrexate at one point but then thought it might be better to stay on Imuran and maybe switch to remicade, since my body has no ba side effects from Imuran and tolerates it well.