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I've been on Prednisone every day for over 4 years (sporadically for years prior). I'm a lung transplant patient, and we can't ever stop taking it. I took 30mg a day for quite a while but have tapered over the years to my maintenance of 5mg a day. My weight has definitely increased on it, and I can see the tell tale…

You can look for Cardio - Strength and then you can put your time and caloires in. I end up putting the reps and weights in under Strength, but I go back up to Cardio and put the calories under Strength.

I totally understand about the bone loss. I have Osteopenia in my lower spine (at 38), and we are trying to stop the bone loss before it gets to Osteoporosis. Mine is from the enormous amounts of steroids I have taken over the years in order to be able to breathe, and now that I am on steroids for life, I have to really…

I'm a Cystic Fibrosis patient, and I had a double lung transplant four years ago. From my experience with being unable to breathe and being down to 16% capacity by transplant, I think I burned more like 7,000 calories a day just trying to breathe and walk anywhere. Forget working out. I couldn't walk to the bathroom…

I have Cystic Fibrosis and had a double lung transplant on September 29, 2008. :) It has been a fabulous four years of finally being able to breathe. My prednisone is forever, but I am only on 5 mg a day now. It seems like we lung transplantees have a lot more meds that are forever, and I think it really contributes to my…