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ever since they put me back on steriods for my shingles.   i am crazy!!!!    sorry guys!    it is so hard controlling medication emotions.    i am trying to wean myself off of them before i eat someone for christmas.  my side hurts some still but the shinlges are inside of me and now they are crunchy in there.   literally i can make them crunch and crack.   kind-a like snap, crackle and pop        wonderwoman

 

I know how you feel.  I'm Dr, Jekyl and Mr. Hyde on prednisone.  Never know who's there so you walk on eggshells while around me.  They really are quite upsetting, these mood swings. 

That is not a pretty picture...the crunching shingles thing.  Maybe from where they are drying up?  I don't believe mine ever did that but they did have these huge THICK scabs that...well to be honest looked like jerky or something when they fell off.  It was pretty gross.
 
Bob
I hear you.  I just did a quick taper.  I followed the directions on the bottle but it was a quick taper and I am so glad.  I will be sorry when the pain is unbearable for a short time. but at least I will have my sanity.  I tend to babble and become quite chatty on prednisone.  I can also have gory morbid nightmares people eating people kind of dreams. another medication that makes me like that is ultram. i dreamt of a large bloody butcher knife that I was holding.  It was dripping blood.  I got up that night and flushed the pills down the toilet so that I could not let the pain tempt me to take them again.  Some systems are just way too sensitive for these meds.  I am one of those people with sensitive systems.  I can only take tylenol and ibuprofen.  the docs took me off nsaids, so can only take tylenol for pain now. which is part of the reason my pain is constant.  I'd rather have my sanity.  what little I have left. LOL.
On high doses of prednisone I only remember sleeping problems. 3 AM I would sit straight up in bed and I'd be like TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS! My mind would be racing with all kinds of plans for things to do. My tired body however wanted no part of any of it.PS- crunchy shingles- yikes! Hope they go away soon!High dose steriods make all of us crazy. Sorry you are going threw this.
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