How Prednizone affects ?

[Peaches147]

I am not sure if this is a question or a vent session for how a steroid has side effects on me.  I was worried that I would have my left side just freeze like it has done before, 31/2 years ago,but I got lucky.  I have MS and fibro and either way after a week of not being able to function other than laying on my couch, being sluggish and the rest of the symptons of nerves having a part without inviting me, , my practical side thinks I should be excited that the drug Prednizone does the job.  I am , please don't mistake this blog for being ungreatful .  This whole journey has caused me to be doubtful of who  am now and comparing who I was to who I am now.  I could not sleep before and now I cannot sleep because of medicine.  It is now 1:00 am and I am awake as if it is 8:00 am.  So I am in an ambiguous state as to what is the problem and and what is the solution.  Fibro causes me to feel like a porcupine is being attacked and MS ,I feel like the Tin Man on the Wizard of Oz, but either way I do not hurt as I did I before. So to close this thought I will just acknowledge that I made it through another day and will believe what doesn't kill me MAKES me STRONGER.  

PS.. I am going back to organizing my closet , so I can maybe make myself tired.

[Francyna]

       Hey peaches,

          I just finished my prenisone, i have the opposite effect from yours and Jen. No problem with sleeping here. Not yet anyway. However the heat is back up in philly. We're up to high 90's.... Even food shopping @ night causes me flare ups...it seems like My body is  in a state of being under siege.  If it's not heat it's being sooooo tired, if not that my cognitive skills are way off ( to the point of being totally embarrarassed to talk, afraid it would come out totally scrambled or how bout this NOT  COME  OUT AT ALL)
         So I'm staying inside and out the heat. I hope both yall get  some rest real soon.
        
             Francyna

[jenphilly]

peaches -

If you have to be up at 1 a.m., getting your closets organized is a great thing to do!!!  

I am right there with you...  I don't know if I am truly having a flare with new symptoms or just the heat kicking my butt more and more and causing symptoms to present a little different....  I have a call into my neuro and when I spoke to the nurse first thing she mentioned was pred and I let out that same ugh you're dealing with...  Pred also makes me totally wired and not able to sleep.  My primary has me on ativan for sleeping cause nothing else works (or causes side effects)....  dread the thought of taking pred again...  I was on it for a single course last summer and was miserable, did not sleep more then an hour or so a night and was just wired...  

But, like you, I am trying to remind myself, if it can get things under control and make me feel better and/or reduce symptoms or problems, we should be happy its available to us...  maybe if someone else reminded me it would help :)    

About the join the same sleepless boat with you...  I'll let you know if I start, we can start our own 1 a.m. club meeting :)

Jen