I am still taking prednisolone this way. Were is everybody?

Chris

--- In addisonsdisease@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Jackson"
<chrisgj@s...> wrote:
> On Dec 8th, 2004, I was diagnosed secondary and given cortef (30
mg /
> day). After one month it did nothing for me so I was switched to
> prednisolone in early Jan this year. I have been taking it at 5am
(4
> mg-hated interupting my sleep like that) and noon (2 mg), but the
> stuff takes until 10 or 11 am (5 or 6 hours) until it starts to
kick
> in. A few days ago I tried taking the entire days dose at 5 am and
> by 3 pm I was starting to crash and wiped out by about 6 pm.
>
> I knew from my super high doses of DHEA days (before doctor finally
> helped me) that I was bottoming out overnight. I thought, "let's
try
> taking the 5 am dose of 4 mg at midnight instead. That should mean
> that it would start to kick in about 6 am.
>
> Low and behold, the last two days have been the best all year. I'm
> not superman or anything, but I feel better and get through the day
> better.
>
> So if you have the problem of it taking your steriod a long time to
> start kicking in, try a much earlier time like I did. I wish I had
> figured it out sooner.
>
> Chris