Prednisone and weight loss

Thanks Jwilllose, awesome weight loss by the way!
Yes RA and sarcoidosis are both pretty craptastic

It is a pity that prednisone has such nasty side effects because it does seem to be the most effective treatment.
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The most frustrating thing for me is that I was on such a low dose that I had ZERO side effects. I could lose weight and keep it off easily- when I went off, the pain came back and I (PERSONALLY) got lazy and ate too much because "Woe is me- my wrist hurts". I'm an emotional eater so I'm paying careful attention to my hunger level and only eating to satisfy physical needs (or if I'm out and something homemade is offered to me- I make exceptions for that). But I know Prednisone is not meant to be lifelong so I needed to essentially force myself off it. I don't have much pain compared to those with active RA so I'm not complaining (too much)

I sincerely wish your wife a reduction in pain and for all those who have taken it for pain- I hope one day we find we never need it again!

Ironically enough, my doctor put me on this today for a short term issue. Knowing I was working on losing weight, his advice was to stay as far away from sugar as possible because the meds would make the body latch on to them "like a squirrel gathering nuts in October".

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Hopefully your short term use won't be too nasty for you.

Thanks! I hope so too. It's this or surgery so I'm hoping this does the trick and I can be done with it all. Best of luck to you guys as well!

I've been on prednisone since I was pregnant last spring. I had to go off all my RA meds and that was the only one I could be on. I haven't been able to control the pain ever since, even though I started my RA shots back up. Right now I'm only on 5 mg a day but I can't lose a pound and although I only gained 30 lbs while pregnant, I wasn't really hungry during the pregnancy. But NOW I feel hungry all the time and the few lbs I did lose recently are back. I hope to hell I can get off this drug soon!!

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