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Skin infections while on Prednisone
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 22, 2017 | Replies (71)Comment receiving replies
Hello @paulinef, Welcome to Mayo Connect! Connect is a great place to meet others with similar health issues and compare treatments. I have polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) also and am in the process of tapering off of prednisone. I'm currently on 6 mg dosage. I have had some scrapes recently but none from falling or any that got infected. I would like to invite a few Connect members who also have mentioned dealing with PMR in their discussions to see if they have any input. @rolandhp @mach92 @anya @barbararene, @charlena, and @jchatchett do have any experience with using antibiotics or other treatments for infections while on prednisone?
@paulinef can you share how you scraped your knee and it became infected? I was wondering if you were able to clean the scrape but it still got infected.
John
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I tripped out walking and fell onto hard paving - knee was protected bye jeans but I thoroughly cleaned it plus polysporin for a few days. As it started to look inflamed I went to doctor and she thought it could be reaction to polysporin but prescribed antibiotic anyway, which cleared it. I assume prednisone restricts healing thru repressed auto immune syste as now the latest scrape isn't healing
Thanks for the additional information @paulinef. I have not seen any information about a reaction caused by prednisone and an antibiotic but it might be a great question for your pharmacist. I have used antibiotic hand soap but not sure if that qualifies. Are you able to call your local pharmacist where you got your prednisone RX and ask them?
John
Seems that it was the prednisone that was causing the lack of healing, not the polysporin causing a reaction. The antibiotic has cleared the first infection but waiting to see how the second scrape progresses - doctor doesn't want to put me on another antibiotic unless worsens.
Thank goodness I have not had any fall or any bad scrapes so I cannot comment on the healing process from taking prednisone. Although yesterday I did forget to take my morning 5mg of the pred. Well I paid the price for that last night 7-10 my shoulders, hip, back & neck really hurt along with my BP that really spiked. An hour after taking my evening 5mg of the pred. my BP went down to normal. This morning I feel pretty good. So lesson learned do not skip taking the prednisone or you will pay the price.
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Hi well I have had PMR since March & being treated with prednisone I started out with 20mg every other day then I had to go to 20/day. Between the Dr. & myself we have been trying to adjust, I dropped the 20mg/ day taking 10 in the morning & then 10 in the evening. Then I dropped down to 5 in the morning & 10 in the evening well that did not work out to good so we increased it back to 10 in the AM & 10 PM. now I am back to 5mg in the AM & 5 in the PM. It is now working out okay I still have pain in both shoulders but I can cope with a little pain just to get off the steroids. I am able to do most of what I use to do except play golf & lift weights. I am able to ride my bike (pedal) also my motorcycle & do gym work. The secret is keep active.