Yes, i did use Prednisone, because i had a lung inflammation due to food alergies last year (never had this prior to propecia). It seemed to calm down my adrenals, i became more calm and the depression vanished. Suddenly i wasn’t irritable anymore or always in a bad mood. My sleep improved a lot. But, on the other hand i became a little lethargic, and slow in the morning. Basically i think Finasteride pushed my adrenals to work like a Cushing disease patient (overwork). And Prednisone pushed my adrenals to work like a Addison disease patient (after finasteride). The healthy state is somewhere in between. If your metabolism seems to be going too fast, and you re having depression and irritability, i think it is worth a try. But you need to be very careful with the dosage, so it does not shut down your adrenals completely.
I have used Prednisone quite often in my life because i have always had respiratory alergies. If it is used for no longer than five consecutive days, it is quite safe. Before finasteride, i ve used Prednisone about ten times over twenty years (whenever i had a crisis), always for no longer than five days, and always followed by my Pneumologist. Never had a problem. When someone is in an alergy crisis, the adrenals overwork and and create an inflammation as a defense to a threat to the body, which for me has always been mildew, mold, and dust mites (prior to propecia). So Prednisone is supposed to slow down your adrenals for a couple of days, so the body heals the inflammation and the allergic reaction. It needs to be taken for a short period of time, because it can shut down completely ones adrenals in 14 days.
Now, look how Propecia has fucked up my metabolism: Last year my allergies started to change from respiratory to food allergies (My Pneumologist said: - I can’t understand this, a little change in ones allergic patterns over a lifetime is expected, but i ve never seen someone that has changed so much in so little time. Plus you re quite young - her words ). So, immediately after i ate shrimp sometime last year (again, i ve always eaten shrimp every month with no problems, it was my favorite food), i felt a strong pain, like crushing my lungs and my throat. I had to force my self to breathe deep. I rushed to my doctors office, and i knew i had no alternative but take Prednisone. If you don’t treat this, you can die. I was expecting my body to react the same way it has always done to Prednisone, but this time, it pretty much shut down my adrenals, even though i took the same dosage and for the same five days as always, my body now reacts different. Thanks Merck.
So if anyone here is considering Predinisone, don’t take it for more than five days, and use it very low dosage. Like 5 or 10 mgs a day or so. (i had to take 20 miligrams every twelve hours, for 5 days).
