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Dec. 10th, 2007 03:30 am Quick question for those out there in LJ-land, related to medicine...
Has anyone else ever been on the steroid Prednisone? If so, did you all suffer any side effects? I've been on it for a while now, but I'm noticing that I'm kind of jittery and my heart seems to beat really fast. I took my pulse a couple of times and it was rather high, so I'm planning on calling the doctor. I thought it was me reintroducing caffeine back in my diet, but today I didn't have any caffeine and still felt like my heart was racing and just kind of pounding... like I had gone for a long run or on a rollercoaster or something. My hands also have a tendency to shake (my right hand has been like that for years because I was in a couple of car accidents and damaged the discs in my neck), and I'm just kind of clumsier than normal.
But I can't just go off of it because then my system won't be any good... I'm starting the tapering process tomorrow (cutting down by half a pill a week) because apparently you're supposed to do it as slowly as possible.
Gah. Medicine is annoying. My body? Even more so.
Has anyone else ever been on the steroid Prednisone? If so, did you all suffer any side effects? I've been on it for a while now, but I'm noticing that I'm kind of jittery and my heart seems to beat really fast. I took my pulse a couple of times and it was rather high, so I'm planning on calling the doctor. I thought it was me reintroducing caffeine back in my diet, but today I didn't have any caffeine and still felt like my heart was racing and just kind of pounding... like I had gone for a long run or on a rollercoaster or something. My hands also have a tendency to shake (my right hand has been like that for years because I was in a couple of car accidents and damaged the discs in my neck), and I'm just kind of clumsier than normal.
But I can't just go off of it because then my system won't be any good... I'm starting the tapering process tomorrow (cutting down by half a pill a week) because apparently you're supposed to do it as slowly as possible.
Gah. Medicine is annoying. My body? Even more so.
