hydrocortosine back pain?

[Brucergoldberg]

Hello,

I just started HC about a week ago.  Im doing 10-7.5-5-2.5

I also have slight back pain in the bottom left quadrant of my back.   It started 3 days after my HC dosing.

is this related?

thank you

[rumpled]

Most people dose 2x a day in order not to take anything after 3 or 4pm so that nothing interferes with sleep.

But I have a couple of friends that need 2.5 before bed to sleep. They are not the norm.

You may have to adjust either how you are taking it or the time. The normal body has the bulk in the morning - you are spreading through the day.  I take 15mg in the morning - and that is it.

[Brucergoldberg]

back pain is gone.   must of been an adjustment period.  But i cant sleep.  I go to sleep and then 4 hours later i awake and cant go back to sleep.   Im also hungry all the time. even when my belly is full as fat as it is, im hungry all the time.

[rumpled]

Since corticosteroids are an anti-inflammatory sometimes used to treat pain (ironically arthritis!) not sure about that... so it is so hard to tell... have to see the doc to get it checked out.

[Brucergoldberg]

I'm just not hoping it's a hip or something.

[rumpled]

Not a muscle pain?
Did it ever happen before with any corticosteroid usage?
I think a way to rule it out/in is to change the dose a bit and see if the pain changes?