Hi everyone
I've just had a very nasty experience - all my own fault. I'm currently on
3.5mg, having tapered from 40mg last December and I usually take my
predisolone between 8am and 8.30am. The drop to 3.5mg has gone
really well, much better than 4.5 to 4 and I've been congratulating myself,
and feeling really well. This morning I decided to do some baking, and
was well on the way with it when I started to feel dreadful - sweat pouring
off me (which won't have improved the flavour of the chocolate brownies),
palpitations, weak at the knees, shoulders aching. I couldn't understand
it - possibly the effect of looking at all those calories in a bowl? - and
then remembered I hadn't taken my morning predisolone (this was at just
after 10.00am. - I'm in the UK) Took the tablets, got the brownies in
(maybe no-one will notice they are a bit salty), left the kitchen looking
like a bomb site, and came for a sit down.
Apart from being a salutory lesson in remembering to take them, the
sweating part is interesting. I sweated lots at the beginning, hair dripping
etc, and was never sure whether it was pred or pmr. The only thing I'd
ever really connected it with was hoovering - which gave me a good
excuse. But this sweating was as good as any of the big ones I had at the
beginning, and started about 90 mins after my normal time for taking the
stuff, when my body must have been getting very short of it. Does this
tell us anything? (apart from the fact that my memory is getting worse!)
Have a good day
Margaret
Hi Margaret!
I read your post this morning and then got busy myself and looked at the clock and it was a little past my time also. I remembered what you said and took my pill.
Thanks again for the reminder!
Kathy
Kathy, I started on 10 mg July 8th, went to 15 July 24? then 20 Aug 3rd. I amI usually took my Prednisone "sometime" in the morning. The timing was never too specific. I have been off of it since the first of June. I was one that never really sweat, no matter what I did. Now, I sweat very much, it just rolls off my forehead, so much so that I need to wear a headband if I do anything too physical.
Last night I was out pulling some weeds, and after about 15 minutes, I was just soaked and the sweat was running. Never ever in my life have I sweat like that. The other day I was at an office, and it wasn't too warm in there, but just sort of...and I started to really sweat, it was almost embarrassing. I've never had a hot flash....but maybe that is what it was. I am 63 so well done with menopause.
So, I am thinking it is the disease PMR that makes one sweat too. It doesn't seem to have gotten any less since I was off of Prednisone. When I was on Prednisone the weather was cooler too. So I can imagine how bad it would be now the the temps in the high 90s if I were still taking Prednisone, if that made one sweat too.
It seems that since we sweat so much and have inflammation, the disease must have something to do with how our body processes water. Mary
hi Kathy