Posted by Anne Langlois on 3/25/12

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Hello, I have been reading all the comments about this drug
and am wondering why hasen't anyone sued for damages? most
of the side effects of prednisone were dismisssed as
symptoms of copd, water retention or other while my husband
was at the hospital for one week and given IV of
prednisone (how much I don't know) any way , I thought he
was going to die in the hospital, so I insisted on taking
him home. He was originally being treated with antibiotics
from a reg. physician from a clininc where he regularly
visits his own family physician who was not available so
they assigned him another doctor (same clinic) who was a
surgeon and did not know he was allergic to prednisone but
went ahead and prescribed antibiotics and 60mg pred. dose
tapered off to 10mg over 2 weeks. After having finished
the antibiotics and half of the pred. he started getting
very anxious and out of breath and went back to the same
clinic and saw (another doctor) who told him to go to ER
at the local hospital. There they treated him 3 times with
C-PAP and asked if he was allergic to anything ,( to which
he said no) and dummy me signed a form allowing them to
treat my husband upon admission(how many are thinking
clearly at this point when your loved one is need of urgent
care) , Afterwards 3 cpap treatments his breathing settled
down and that day they wheeled him to a room at the
hospital to monitor him , of course never mentioning the IV
contents to me or what all the shots were for. while in
the hospital they flushed out the rest of the virus and my
husband was feeling better and he was walking around after
3 days then around the 5 - 6th day he started getting
worse! I noticed a redness all around his neck and extreme
swelling of his legs, tigh as a drum and neck and (not once
did I meet the doctor who was treating him) so I asked the
student and head nurse what was causing all his swelling
and of course they suggested it could be water retention
due to his exacerbation (in ER) . I told them I thought it
was side effects from medicine and that he was doing better
the day before. the response was always the same. (see the
doctor) who never showed up when I was there mid mornings.
I thank God my husband is home with me. the aftercare
prescriptions show 60mg for 7 days, then tapering off to
nothing after 12 days. not yet knowing the serious side
effects of prednisone at this point or even how much
prednisone was given to him while on IV at hospital, we gor
the prescritpions filled and started on the 6 pills for one
day (60Mg) , next day he broke out into a hives like rash
and his hands were red and he was itchy all over , weak
and had told me he could not sleep and felt like his
tongue was on fire later on 2 days, his personality changed
entirely like a Jeckyll and Hyde, very angry outburst . I
would like to know what kind of a hospital dismisses side
effects of such a dangerous drug. My husband was helped
through this ordeal only after the virus was taken out and
then again I wonder if this whol ER experience could have
been avoided if the Drs. he saw had not precribed
prednisone and instead gave him antibiotics only and CPAP.
also I am wondering why they don't make the allergic
reactions known to all the Drs. that work in a group! It
seems to me that the local hospital, if the nurse said to
my husband's question "can you transfer health records from
the clinic "(affiliated with the same hospital) that they
would have done this. Instead the answer he got from the
ER nurse was "yes". Well then why didn't they do this?.
All the forms from the hospital wherre he was treated say
he had no allergies. yet this is not the first time his
life has been put in danger by prednisone. Years ago he
also had an allergic reaction to it and he was immediately
taken off of it after he complained to his reg, Physician
so you would that information would have been a permanent
red flag upon any future treatments. Thank you for these
blogs. I read some to my very irritated husband to re
assure him that he is not going crazy but was overdosed
with prednisone. Incidentally we got a follow up call from
a nurse who wanted to know how he was doing and I told her
everything. Also I have been reading that 60mg is
considered a hi dose and said so to her, but this nurse
said they regularly IV 125 mg of prednisone. I thought to
myself my husband would have died in that hospital had he
stayed a day longer. Always pray to God for guidance and
keep a close eye on your loved ones in the hospitals these
days of maximum dosing.

prednisone, 3/25/12, by Anne Langlois.

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