I take prednisone for asthma at times..Also was on it for Bells Palsy, No i haven t had problems coming off it..I am Hashi/Hypothyroid..Dawn
I have hashimotos "hypothyroid" and I was on Prednisone for neck pain "twice" within a month.. Both times i took high dosages and was tappered over only a week and I had a HORRIBLE time coming off of it.... I don't know if it was from thyroid or not because i had never been on it prior to thyroid but i know that people that don't even have thyroid problems can have a hard time coming off of it.. so who knows...
Were you both on a high dose?.. My longest was 7 days..
I have read that corticosteroids (not anabolic) block T3 conversion. I have seen several people I know that were on high doses of prednisone for a life threatening illness. Weight gain, water retention, and moon face are the side effects. Hmmm, sounds just like hypo?
20 some years ago, I got kenalog (corticosteroid) shots for hay fever. I gained 30 stinking pounds in 60 days! My Dr. said he had never heard of this. Maybe I was just hungry?
My little sis gets kenalog shots all the time and she is 99 lbs. It doesn't effect her weight at all.
So maybe there is a steroid/T3 connection? Maybe some people are just more sensitive to the side effects?