Prednisone for Mixed Connective Tissue Disease User Reviews

• Jay...
• May 18, 2015

"Take with extreme caution with Dr. able to be reached quickly. I lost the back and edges of several teeth from side effects. Take for the shortest time possible. Will affect bone matrix breakdown in some cases. You might feel wonderful, but be rotting inside, without knowledge about some unusual but possible side effects."

• Lit...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• May 18, 2016

"Swelling, severe joint pain, especially wrists, leaving me unable to use my hands. Dr. prescribed prednisolone 20 mgs to start. Within 1 hour, my pain was gone, and the next day, swelling had almost disappeared. As I was on a long course, I did suffer from being paranoid and gained over 3 stone in weight, however, I did realize I had to bear with it to have any quality of life, and it did work. For 5 years, I had no more symptoms. Recently, my pains and swellings are back, only in my wrists this time. Doctors prescribed only short periods of the drug. I had no side effects, but 3 days after finishing, my wrists were screaming pain. I am 70 this year and otherwise have good health, so I will have my way and use of my hands back by using this drug."

• One...
• April 9, 2017

"Back in the mid-eighties, I started to get some sort of odd inflammation. They thought several different diseases, because from time to time, I test positive for them, then negative. First Lyme, then systemic lupus, then gout, then possible bone cancer, etc., etc. The list is huge and has baffled a lot of different doctors, which have sent me to all the best clinics. The last time was Neuromyelitis when I started to go blind and have seizures. When the flare-up eventually got so bad in the nineties that I was mottled and four times the normal size and bedbound, not being able to walk at all. The big problem is it floats and affects random joints and organs. I have to. What seems to help the most is prednisone."