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Hi, Veronica. This dosage is thru tomorrow, then down to 20 for five days. It can make me feel like I’m nuts? How will I be able to tell? 🥴🤭🤣☹️

I wonder if 40 mg is what’s called a “prednisone burst”. Anyway, I have my answers now. Thanks and take care.

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Prednisone works this way, (my doctor) It knocks the immune system down so that the antibiotic can do its job better, once the round of biotics is finished, the body begins to return to normal; however, the prednisone will cause leg cramps, sounds like you picked up a nasty cold once they wore off. If I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me, I've been on this many, many, times.

Hi Veronica
I have also found prednisone to be a lifesaver also and I do get lots of energy from it! It doesn’t happen immediately but after a couple of days then it kicks in (with me) The problem is you can’t take it all the time because it does damage long term and definitely hard to sleep! I hope it kicks in soon , it sounds like you had a bad run with pneumonia! So that is more than a COPD exacerbation! They also always have put me on an antibiotic with it because it lowers your immune system, something they don’t want!!
Hope you are feeling better soon. Let us know!!

I have needed to use Prednisone (2) since last December and it saved my life both eimes... it works.

Prednisone will reduce the inflammation in your lungs and that will help get rid of the effects of the pneumonia you had, but it also has some side-effects that can be hard to deal with. If you really feel it's worse than the disease, stop taking it and let your doc know why. Prednisone can raise your blood sugar, but it will not give you diabetes; once you stop taking it, if your blood sugar was high, it will return to normal levels.