Same here. I got prescribed a 60 mg dose for 5 days for mild chest congestion and cough. After doing some research, I'm going to find a natural alternative.
Our dad developed prednisone induced psychosis and we've been living a nightmare ever since. He was in a psychiatric facility for 2022 Thanksgiving and Christmas. He was having hallucinations and was extremely paranoid and suicidal. The doctor tried different medications and lithium left him unresponsive....which led to ICU and hospital visits for over a year. He's stabilized now, but is a different man. He's now in long term care. He was active and fully independent before taking this drug. I would not EVER take this drug. Families should be warned of the potential complications. This drug ruined life as he knew it.
Thanks for this story, i have the same now, 5 days of prednisone 30mg give me a psychoses for 3 year, 7 years ago, 4 weaks ago thej give me again prednisone ans i get again a psychose nud this time i was trained to take care of the psychose, bud not still the same person after 12 days stop prednisone thanks for your story it is true look my channel, it is true!!
I can sympathize. I developed prednisone psychosis after a round of the stuff. It’s been 20 months and I’m still not over all of the symptoms. For months on end, day after day I was afraid to get out of my bed and lay there crying all day. It has been torture for my family and me. I wanted to end my life many times but didn’t want to put my family through that. I’m somewhat better but not quite the same.
@@lindavid794 I hope you return to your wonderful self. Sending you healing vibes, peace and comfort. I don't think this drug should be given to anyone.
I just finished a 5 day course at 40mg/day and currently on day 7 without and had very bad withdrawal symptoms (no taper). All that lingers now is some brain fog and light headedness, but the anxiety and other symptoms were enough for me to never want to take it again. Hopefully back to normal in a couple more days!
I had a bad case of COVID in 2021 and got way too much Prednisone. Just finding out about this, explains a lot about my symptoms - I thought it was just the COVID!
I have only been in it for 5 days at 4 mg. I feel absolutely nutty right now. I am freaking out a bit. Do these side effects usually go away after discontinuing? And by nutty I mean jittery, depressed, anxious, aggressive, and scary thoughts.
I've had life changing complications from being on Budesonide for 10 yrs! I've just been weaned off a wk ago.. I'm THANKFUL to still be alive. I believe my Ortho surgeon may have saved my life. I'm scheduled to have second hip replacement so he saud i had to come off. Each yr on corticosteroids my mental health was getting worse. I feel like I'm losing my mind. If it was not for me getting a new GI Dr.yo get me off don't know what would happened. Prayerfully i will recover eventually. TY for this video although I'm on different med. results still the same AWFUL
Oh man. I’ve been on 60mg of prednisone a day for 2 months. I just barely got to start tapering off this last week so I’m down to 50mg for 2 weeks then I’ll drop to 40mg and so on…
Thank you for this Megan. Do you have any experience with Prednisone causing hallucinations or delusions of a sexual nature? I'm aware of a case where a 40 kg, 13 year old girl on long-term 65 mg/day for nephrotic syndrome, went cold turkey without consulting with her doctor. One evening soon after she stopped her dose, she drank alcohol (given to her by her mother, can you believe?) and woke the following morning to accuse her step-father of molesting her. There were witnesses to the absence of any possible offending and he had no opportunity to do anything of the sort, but finished up being convicted of an assault that he clearly did not commit on the basis of the girl's testimony alone. It basically ruined his life for over a decade. Are you able to point me in the direction of any academic research or practising doctor with expertise in the area of adrenal suppression and side-effect of psychotic (specifically sexual) fantasy? Many thanks.
I don't know of any specifically sexual psychotic scientific research. Here's some links that may help with psychosis: prednisonepharmacist.com/prednisone-warrior-stories/steroid-psychosis/
Okay, thanks for that. I've had a look at your links and they're very interesting, though not quite as specific as I had hoped. But thanks for responding anyway. @@PrednisonePharmacist
She was on prednisolone and then put on depo medrone injection which I think is same just injectable form . Meds used in animals are often the same as humans.
Kaiser drs put me in several prednisone steroid blasts without any explanation of possible dependency, hit rock bottom (emotions imploded, depression, paranoia, doom), so they put me back on steroids, they’re tapering me down again with very little oversight. This part time went from 30 mg five days to 20 mg five days, to 10 mg now on 7 mg for three more days then five for five days, I’m very worried about what might happen in the next couple days and weeks.
I had a 4 MG dexamethasone shot in december, and I'm still feeling extreme anxiety, weird sensation, and feeling like going crazy. Thank God for feeling better now, but I'm taking olanzapine and clonazepam to even me out Dexamethasone is hell😂
@Sean Dunnington Yes, a lot better, but I will have to be on treatment for the anxiety and panic attacks for about 9 months. Basically, the dexametasona made me live a hell but saved my life too
@@davidvalle1766 well at the moment yes. It’s just really made me have weird thoughts, paranoid, and anxious I believe. I haven’t had psychosis, but I’ve had nightmares every night for a week. It’s super weird. I’m gonna try and taper off of them as soon as possible.
I was just diagnosed with this recently and I'm now on zyprexa and ativan to regualte my sleep and the other mania symptoms. It's working well so far and I appreciate this video. I went to work for two whole weeks before getting help. I'm lucky I was able to keep it together until finally going to the ER cause my heart rate was super high.
I have been on Prednisone for the past 5 months. Took my last half pill today and for the rest of my life. The past 3 days. Horrible pain everywhere. Moods up and down. Steroids cause sugar to become very high. They have caused major problems in my life.
@@PrednisonePharmacist I started having a high fever 2 days ago. I don't know if it is from the prednisone? I know my immune system is really bad. I have COPD. I also use inhalers and and a nebulizer. I am miserable. Guess I have to go too ER today? I will be skipping the steroids. Thank you for replying back. We moved to another state 16 year's ago. They said it was allergies that caused all my breathing problems. They started giving steroids to me. It is their go to drug in this state. I hope people will try something else before going through what I have went through. It changes your body and mind. I can't count how many times my husband and my family have called me crazy. My husband's favorite saying is, if you were that sick. You wouldn't act like you do. Prednisone gives you super energy. It isn't like you can stay in bed.
Hi Somcana! I created a blog with that topic in specific. You can watch it here prednisonepharmacist.com/education/which-supplement-ingredients-counteract-prednisone-side-effects/
@@PrednisonePharmacist I stopped them after four weeks due to severe side effects. I stopped feeling Ill and started healing. This medicine was poison for me and I would never take it again. All infections, and bruising including a stiff neck started to disappear. This med should not be prescribed if the negative over weigh the positive. Oh and not to mention a swollen stomach and glands.
Can the symptoms come and go? Like weeks in between episodes? Some lasting only a day or so and one lasting several days in row? So my cat has been on long term steroids and vet recently upped dose and approx after a week or two after top up injection she would pace and cry, not eat and want to drink but seem to struggle. Struggling with sleep also. She also has nasal tumour which treatment is for. Tumour went behind eye and caused it to tilt. I was thinking she was in extreme pain from symptoms but could all these symptoms cause these same symptoms mentioned. She tried sleeping but would cry and look like she couldnt get comfy. She was fed up after several days of pacing and crying. Both tumour entering eye muscle and upper dose of steroids seem to coincide. So not sure if she was in severe pain or its steroid dementia. Would love to know answers to my questions about if its comes and goes in waves and if symptoms could fit based on a humans experience.
Hi! Check out this article about "Prednisone Psychotic Symptom Recovery - Prednisone Warrior Robert" Read & watch here: prednisonepharmacist.com/prednisone-warrior-stories/prednisone-psychotic-symptom-recovery-robert/ For more information about prednisone, we have a bunch of content and articles that might be of help in your condition. You can browse our website at Prednisonepharmacist.com and discover ways to manage and counteract the side effects of prednisone.
Hi are you there. So I'm just now realizing I was diagnosed with schizophrenia right after I had some steroids/ prednisone. Obviously this is a misdiagnosis. Well they prescribed me resperidone injection. Am I able to get off the resperidone or will I have psychosis episodes. The worse part is trying to tell my sig other that the steroid was what was making me think those ways...I was taking the steroid due to a mold outbreak I tried cleaning mold and again other times due to eczema....help...please comment
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thank God I found these videos.... my ER doctors didn't tell me anything about this drug
Same here. I got prescribed a 60 mg dose for 5 days for mild chest congestion and cough. After doing some research, I'm going to find a natural alternative.
Our dad developed prednisone induced psychosis and we've been living a nightmare ever since. He was in a psychiatric facility for 2022 Thanksgiving and Christmas. He was having hallucinations and was extremely paranoid and suicidal. The doctor tried different medications and lithium left him unresponsive....which led to ICU and hospital visits for over a year. He's stabilized now, but is a different man. He's now in long term care. He was active and fully independent before taking this drug. I would not EVER take this drug. Families should be warned of the potential complications. This drug ruined life as he knew it.
Thanks for this story, i have the same now, 5 days of prednisone 30mg give me a psychoses for 3 year, 7 years ago, 4 weaks ago thej give me again prednisone ans i get again a psychose nud this time i was trained to take care of the psychose, bud not still the same person after 12 days stop prednisone thanks for your story it is true look my channel, it is true!!
I hear you! That’s awful. I’m so sorry.
I can sympathize. I developed prednisone psychosis after a round of the stuff. It’s been 20 months and I’m still not over all of the symptoms. For months on end, day after day I was afraid to get out of my bed and lay there crying all day. It has been torture for my family and me. I wanted to end my life many times but didn’t want to put my family through that. I’m somewhat better but not quite the same.
@@lindavid794 I hope you return to your wonderful self. Sending you healing vibes, peace and comfort. I don't think this drug should be given to anyone.
Went to the ER and the nurse told me her neighbor had a psychotic breakdown on prednisone. She dug a hole in her yard and tried to bury herself alive!
Wow! How terrifying!
I just finished a 5 day course at 40mg/day and currently on day 7 without and had very bad withdrawal symptoms (no taper). All that lingers now is some brain fog and light headedness, but the anxiety and other symptoms were enough for me to never want to take it again. Hopefully back to normal in a couple more days!
it’s hell hey! 😔
Thanks bro im stressing over here
That is exactly what happened to me and I have never been the same
I had a bad case of COVID in 2021 and got way too much Prednisone. Just finding out about this, explains a lot about my symptoms - I thought it was just the COVID!
that stuff can mess you up 😳
I wish my wofes doctor would’ve tell her about this symptoms before taking this. She has horrible paranoid dilutions.
I have only been in it for 5 days at 4 mg. I feel absolutely nutty right now. I am freaking out a bit. Do these side effects usually go away after discontinuing?
And by nutty I mean jittery, depressed, anxious, aggressive, and scary thoughts.
Hi, how have you been? Did you get recover from the side effects ?
Please let me know as well, I’m also experiencing this.
I've had life changing complications from being on Budesonide for 10 yrs! I've just been weaned off a wk ago.. I'm THANKFUL to still be alive. I believe my Ortho surgeon may have saved my life. I'm scheduled to have second hip replacement so he saud i had to come off. Each yr on corticosteroids my mental health was getting worse. I feel like I'm losing my mind. If it was not for me getting a new GI Dr.yo get me off don't know what would happened. Prayerfully i will recover eventually. TY for this video although I'm on different med. results still the same AWFUL
Oh man. I’ve been on 60mg of prednisone a day for 2 months. I just barely got to start tapering off this last week so I’m down to 50mg for 2 weeks then I’ll drop to 40mg and so on…
Thank you for this Megan. Do you have any experience with Prednisone causing hallucinations or delusions of a sexual nature? I'm aware of a case where a 40 kg, 13 year old girl on long-term 65 mg/day for nephrotic syndrome, went cold turkey without consulting with her doctor. One evening soon after she stopped her dose, she drank alcohol (given to her by her mother, can you believe?) and woke the following morning to accuse her step-father of molesting her. There were witnesses to the absence of any possible offending and he had no opportunity to do anything of the sort, but finished up being convicted of an assault that he clearly did not commit on the basis of the girl's testimony alone. It basically ruined his life for over a decade. Are you able to point me in the direction of any academic research or practising doctor with expertise in the area of adrenal suppression and side-effect of psychotic (specifically sexual) fantasy? Many thanks.
I don't know of any specifically sexual psychotic scientific research. Here's some links that may help with psychosis:
prednisonepharmacist.com/prednisone-warrior-stories/steroid-psychosis/
Okay, thanks for that. I've had a look at your links and they're very interesting, though not quite as specific as I had hoped. But thanks for responding anyway. @@PrednisonePharmacist
She was on prednisolone and then put on depo medrone injection which I think is same just injectable form . Meds used in animals are often the same as humans.
I took for a few days and thought about suicide. I felt completely hopeless.
Kaiser drs put me in several prednisone steroid blasts without any explanation of possible dependency, hit rock bottom (emotions imploded, depression, paranoia, doom), so they put me back on steroids, they’re tapering me down again with very little oversight. This part time went from 30 mg five days to 20 mg five days, to 10 mg now on 7 mg for three more days then five for five days, I’m very worried about what might happen in the next couple days and weeks.
Good luck. It’s sure tricky when there’s little oversight.
Olanzapine-Fluoxetine
I had a 4 MG dexamethasone shot in december, and I'm still feeling extreme anxiety, weird sensation, and feeling like going crazy. Thank God for feeling better now, but I'm taking olanzapine and clonazepam to even me out
Dexamethasone is hell😂
I hear ya! It’s sooo hard what it can do to you!!
Are you doing any better now?
@Sean Dunnington Yes, a lot better, but I will have to be on treatment for the anxiety and panic attacks for about 9 months. Basically, the dexametasona made me live a hell but saved my life too
@Sean Dunnington have you had any bad experience with steroids too?
@@davidvalle1766 well at the moment yes. It’s just really made me have weird thoughts, paranoid, and anxious I believe. I haven’t had psychosis, but I’ve had nightmares every night for a week. It’s super weird. I’m gonna try and taper off of them as soon as possible.
Well done !
I was just diagnosed with this recently and I'm now on zyprexa and ativan to regualte my sleep and the other mania symptoms. It's working well so far and I appreciate this video. I went to work for two whole weeks before getting help. I'm lucky I was able to keep it together until finally going to the ER cause my heart rate was super high.
Nervous. I start 4mg 6 day of methyl prednisolone tomorrow
I had to take 2 bottles full and they were tylenol size. Went completely psychosis
What happed? Why?
Thank you doc
Most welcome!
I have been on Prednisone for the past 5 months.
Took my last half pill today and for the rest of my life.
The past 3 days. Horrible pain everywhere. Moods up and down.
Steroids cause sugar to become very high.
They have caused major problems in my life.
Wow. So sorry you’ve gone through so much. That horrible pain could be a sign of withdrawal but I hope that’s not what you’re going through!
@@PrednisonePharmacist I started having a high fever 2 days ago. I don't know if it is from the prednisone? I know my immune system is really bad. I have COPD. I also use inhalers and and a nebulizer. I am miserable. Guess I have to go too ER today? I will be skipping the steroids.
Thank you for replying back.
We moved to another state 16 year's ago. They said it was allergies that caused all my breathing problems. They started giving steroids to me. It is their go to drug in this state.
I hope people will try something else before going through what I have went through.
It changes your body and mind. I can't count how many times my husband and my family have called me crazy. My husband's favorite saying is, if you were that sick. You wouldn't act like you do. Prednisone gives you super energy. It isn't like you can stay in bed.
What can be used to counteract these side effects if the person really needs this medication.
Hi Somcana! I created a blog with that topic in specific. You can watch it here prednisonepharmacist.com/education/which-supplement-ingredients-counteract-prednisone-side-effects/
Soo what are the fatalities if we stop taking this steroid?
Adrenal failure can be fatal. Contact your doctor ASAP if you’re struggling between psych side effects and wondering whether to stop taking it.
@@PrednisonePharmacist I stopped them after four weeks due to severe side effects. I stopped feeling Ill and started healing. This medicine was poison for me and I would never take it again. All infections, and bruising including a stiff neck started to disappear. This med should not be prescribed if the negative over weigh the positive. Oh and not to mention a swollen stomach and glands.
Can the symptoms come and go? Like weeks in between episodes? Some lasting only a day or so and one lasting several days in row?
So my cat has been on long term steroids and vet recently upped dose and approx after a week or two after top up injection she would pace and cry, not eat and want to drink but seem to struggle. Struggling with sleep also.
She also has nasal tumour which treatment is for. Tumour went behind eye and caused it to tilt. I was thinking she was in extreme pain from symptoms but could all these symptoms cause these same symptoms mentioned. She tried sleeping but would cry and look like she couldnt get comfy. She was fed up after several days of pacing and crying.
Both tumour entering eye muscle and upper dose of steroids seem to coincide. So not sure if she was in severe pain or its steroid dementia.
Would love to know answers to my questions about if its comes and goes in waves and if symptoms could fit based on a humans experience.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with veterinary medicine so I can't answer your question.
My dil has been on steroids for a couple of years. And because of that she has to be on them for life.
Yes yes yes
How long till you start recovering
Hi! Check out this article about "Prednisone Psychotic Symptom Recovery - Prednisone Warrior Robert"
Read & watch here:
prednisonepharmacist.com/prednisone-warrior-stories/prednisone-psychotic-symptom-recovery-robert/
For more information about prednisone, we have a bunch of content and articles that might be of help in your condition. You can browse our website at Prednisonepharmacist.com and discover ways to manage and counteract the side effects of prednisone.
Hi are you there. So I'm just now realizing I was diagnosed with schizophrenia right after I had some steroids/ prednisone. Obviously this is a misdiagnosis. Well they prescribed me resperidone injection. Am I able to get off the resperidone or will I have psychosis episodes. The worse part is trying to tell my sig other that the steroid was what was making me think those ways...I was taking the steroid due to a mold outbreak I tried cleaning mold and again other times due to eczema....help...please comment
Hello! I’m here. That’s a great question for your doctor. But generally, if prednisone caused it, the mood changes aren’t usually permanent.
They prescribed me this for scabies?
Yikes!