Prednisone-Did anyone not gain weight? - General Health Message Board

Sara5678 · 06-03-2006, 11:54 AM

Has anyone taken Prednisone and not gained weight? I would sure love to hear from you and how you did it. I have been on Prednisone 20 mg for almost 2 weeks and am really watching what I eat and my salt intake. Is it possible not to gain weight if you really watch what you consume?

TimeWarp32 · 06-03-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sara5678

Has anyone taken Prednisone and not gained weight? I would sure love to hear from you and how you did it. I have been on Prednisone 20 mg for almost 2 weeks and am really watching what I eat and my salt intake. Is it possible not to gain weight if you really watch what you consume?

I had a heart transplant 2 weeks ago, been on prednisone since. Right after the surgery I had gained about 10 lbs of water weight. Since then however, I am back down to the same weight I was on the day of transplant! Will it stay like this, I dunno.

auntjudyg · 06-05-2006, 07:33 AM

I was on it only temporarily, but I lost weight because it made me so nausea. Don't know what might have happened longer term, though.

feelings lost · 08-02-2006, 07:56 PM

I was on it for about 3 weeks i was 140lbs when i started it went up to 180lbs, so i stopped taking it still haven't been able to get back to where i was.

mfife31 · 08-02-2006, 08:38 PM

My son is 10 years old and has autoimmune hepatitis.He has been on pred since November 05', initially at higher dose of 45 mg per day he gained 20# in a month.(For a skinny kid it seemed like tons.)Now that he is down to 3 mg e/o day, he has only lost 5 # of it all. He is not overweight even after gaining the weight so we havent had to worry about that. Altho on a support group i go to , they say low salt intake helps. It sems the smaller doses alone help to lose most of the weight and get rid of the moon face and other wonderful symptoms. Mfife31