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Prednisone

Posted by sleepstate @sleepstate, Aug 4 3:35am

I'm 60 and I've had asthma since I was 2 and often had bursts of 60-80mgs of Prednisone until I was 20 and my asthma was better. Now I have COPD and type 1 Narcolepsy which Prednisone is also helpful for. But the last 2 years they keep giving me 20mgs to take for a week or 2 and it does nothing to help me! What is going on? Does it just not work anymore, or should I be on higher bursts? I had an asthma attack and ran out of my Ritalin 250 miles from home, so I went to urgent care to get some Prednisone to help me both breath and get home. She gives me this pack of 4mg tablets, tapered from 20mgs to 4mgs. After a shot that also did nothing so guessing it was a low dose too.

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JackC | @jackcusicusi | Aug 11 10:05am
In reply to @sleepstate "Yep, the bare minimum is what you get no matter the medication or situation it seems...." + (show)
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Yep, the bare minimum is what you get no matter the medication or situation it seems. I'm 60 and grew up with uncontrollable asthma and on very frequent high bursts, as high as 100 mgs of Prednisone. Usually it was 60-80, but no less until more recently. Like you said, it's a total waste of time going in just to end up with 5 days' worth of 20 down to 4mgs of prednisone, I laughed when I saw what she prescribed, thought really? What is this supposed to do for me? And it did absolutely nothing! We have to fight and advocate for ourselves! Remind them we are not all textbook cases, in fact most of us aren't. Some of us have been on the same types of medications for 50, 60 or more years and we know what we're talking about when it comes to what works and how much we need to work. We know our medications!

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