Long Term Therapy Of 20mg Prednisone Daily. (Top voted first)

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About every 6 to 8 weeks I go on a 16 day decreasing round of Prednisone starting w 40mg x 4 days, 30mg x 4 days, 20mg x 4 days, and 10mg x4 days. I have been doing this for 2 years. The results of the medicine are wonderful. I am 72, and actually have flashes of my youth from the drug. Near the end of the 6 to 8 weeks without the Prednisone I am quite miserable. I am interested in knowing the risks of decreasing to the 20mg level and just staying on long term for 6 months.

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The NIH lists the long-term risks of steroid usage as possibly including weight gain, moon face, fluid retention, congestive heart failure and immune suppression.

It would be best not to take it, long-term, without your doctor's approval.

Are you on any other medications?

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Holy Cow! Get off of that.I have severe osteoporosic and now keep breaking my pelvis,his,and many vertabrae.That fool doctor destroyed my bones, along with long term use of proton pump inhibitors.(omeperazole)

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