Looking for support from others on Prednisone

IndependentMe

Looking for friends who are also struggling to lose weight/maintain while on this powerful steroid. I'm 47 and struggled with weight for 20 years. I finally felt this would be my year, and soon was taken down with a mystery virus that caused an asthma type reaction and closed my airway. I was in ICU on a respirator for 5 days, then a very long recovery using predisone. I recently had some other viruses, each time bringing with them this same feeling of shortness of breath and the feeling of my windpipe closing so immediately back on prednisone. Dr. is not sure of the cause. Sudden severe asthma?? I never had breathing issues before this year. Something else? Needing to go through tests, but in the meantime keep being put on prednisone as the fix. It works, and I am thankful, it saved my life. I am working so hard to not gain weight from this drug but I am so hungry while taking it, I swear my belly is bigger without extra weight gain, and my already round face is rounder. Sigh. My goal while on this drug will be .5 a week, I hope I can do that.

HoneyBlonde2015

I'm with you - I've been on Prednisone off and on since 1/15 - I'm now trying to settle on a 20mg/day maintenance dose - I've got COPD. I did lose 16 pounds but I've evidently reached a plateau. I just got a FitBit last week and joined up with MFP earlier this week so I'm hoping this will help. I see it's been a while since you posted this - hope you're still here.