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Title: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by HossDelgado on Apr 11^th, 2013 at 6:41pm

I was wondering if anyone has experienced euphoria or any of the other mood altering side effects of prednisone at high doses?

I've never had them before, but my current 2 week taper (i'm at 80mg for one more day) has caused intense psychological side effects. I alternate between euphoria, spaciness, intense confidence, and sudden rushes of emotions (i wept while watching madmen when a character said about death: 'I know that all I'm going to be doing from here on is losing everything').

I wonder if it's an interaction with the d3/fish oil regimen, because this never happened with verapamil as a preventative (i'm trying the taper w/ d3). Also weird is that i'm getting one headache per day (down from up to 4). On previous tapers, the pred wiped out all heacaches for the duration.

I wonder if this what people feel like on cocaine. It's intense.

Title: Re: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by Skyhawk5 on Apr 11^th, 2013 at 7:12pm

My educated guess is it's the Prednisone. In 2005 I was put on 80mgs and soon became a very goofy person. Went on buying sprees, even bought some land I don't need. I did things that I still don't remember doing. My wife does.

Some people can take even higher doses but not me and maybe not you. I'm 5' 8" and 157lbs. I had everything you describe and more. You should be OK but be aware you are not your normal self.

Don

Title: Re: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by Ange NZ on Apr 12^th, 2013 at 4:05am

I get the euphoria and spaciness with prednisone. One workmate notices when I'm on it without me even saying anything as I'm happy and bouncing off the walls. Well, I am when it has done it's job and stopped the CH in its tracks. Hasn't worked this time though so I'm being grumpy still.

Title: Re: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by wimsey1 on Apr 12^th, 2013 at 8:49am

Yup, and not just euphoria. When the pizza arrived I went right for the box ignoring its content. Prednisone is great but wait for the crash when you go down...blessings. lance

Title: Re: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by idorko on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 10:04am

I just got a lot of energy, hunger, and gained weight from Pred. Also couldn't sleep

++ on the crash being absolute hell

Title: Re: Prednisone euphoria - anyone else getting this?
Post by HossDelgado on Apr 20^th, 2013 at 7:03pm

I think you're right about me not being able to handle 80mg/day of prednisone. Luckily my taper is almost done.

I had an especially weird day a couple weeks back when I realized that I should be taking the prednisone in the morning, and not at night. I took 80mg at around midnight, and the next morning was the first day of the 60mg part of the taper, so i took 60mg at around 10AM to get myself on a morning dosing schedule.

By the time I went to lunch with my wife, my brain felt like it was going to explode. I could barely focus on anything and my thoughts kept jumping around. I had to concentrate hard just to stop myself from running around while waving my hands in the air.

I can totally imagine you buying property while under the influence.

Skyhawk5 wrote on Apr 11^th, 2013 at 7:12pm:

Some people can take even higher doses but not me and maybe not you. I'm 5' 8" and 157lbs