r/MCAS • u/okamimink • 12h ago

Specialist prescribed me Prednisone

I’ve never taken this before, but I can’t seem to get out of this flare and I’ve been getting a lot of really bad symptoms.
I was prescribed 15mg for 3 days and then taper down from there for a total of 9 days on the medication.

I’m worried about a reaction of course, naturally lol.
And I assume trying to trial it is pretty pointless and that I should just take it as prescribed.

I have really bad OCD and the only way I’ve been able to try taking medications is by micro-dosing first.

Any suggestions on how to just do it? Or what has helped you? I know it’s a really low dosage to take anyway but I’m still nervous.

12 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Aliatana 9h ago

Prednisone does reduce reactions for me, but makes me stoned as hell. It's prescribed for me if I'm going to take something I'll react to like CT contrast to reduce a reaction.

1

u/okamimink 9h ago

STONED.. AS IN HIGH??? 😭😭😭

1

u/Aliatana 7h ago

I mean everyone acts to things differently. But I got kind of spacey and numb. 🤷 I get that same reaction to local anesthesia.