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Mesenteric Panniculitis or Sclerosing Mesenteritis
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I was wondering if anyone has become Prednisone dependent? For the third time (of this bout!), I have tried to taper off the Prednisone. At 10 mg. I begin feeling much better, but soon enough the symptoms return. My GI wants to up my dosage once again to 20 mg. for a couple of weeks, 15 mg. for another month and then back down to 10 mg. again. I am so disheartened because in a week, I was supposed to be tapering down to 5 mg. daily. I have been on Prednisone since August of last year and am wondering if I have become dependent on it? I have read a study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326978/) and wondered if anyone has used colchicine to aid in the tapering off of Prednisone?
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Very good advice! Thank-you!
@waterboy Bill,
Good idea. Pharmacists are a great source of information regarding meds. We often don't think to check in with them when we have a question. I appreciate your reminding us of this important health care resource.
Tresa
Hello, To this date, I’ve taken no medication for MP. This isn’t my choice has I had developed a allergy to NSAIDS and steroids about 10 years back. I started to loose my vision if I took steroids, any kind of steroids. Your issue sounds like a dependency problem and feel for you. Your in a catch 22 where your damned either way. As you are the only one that can answer this, do you live better with this medication or without, and are your symptoms from MP causing you to require more prednisone to maintain a comfortable means of living?What I do know is that many cases, that there is a underlining issue in which MP has developed. If you haven’t had a CT and workup lately for MP, I’m talking more than 6 months, you may want to have another battery of testing to stay on top of this. There maybe other issues hiding under MP and I hate to say this, most are pretty bad.Like myself, I do not at this time have any underlining issues that I know of, but being a firefighter for 30 years I’ve been in contact with many bad stuff. This in itself has me worried and therefore I’m trying to stay at least one step ahead. I wish you best of luck and I will reply, as I’m trying to get the hang of this site. I was getting 20-30 emails a day about everything else but MP, so hopefully its getting straightened out. Scott Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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If I were you I would talk to a trusted pharmacist. I take prednisone for COPD flares, maybe wk at a time and if longer dosage is tapered off.