Prednisone vs hydrocortisone

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Interactions between your selected drugs prednisone ↔ telaprevir Applies to: prednisone, Incivek (telaprevir) GENERALLY AVOID: Coadministration with telaprevir may increase the plasma concentrations of systemic corticosteroids. The mechanism involves telaprevir inhibition of CYP450 3A4, the isoenzyme primarily responsible for the metabolic clearance of most steroids.

Tina, there's two other people above who had problems on Prednisone, like I did. You might do a search on Cortef Vs. Prednisone. Like I said above, Pred., is "steroid" (powerful synthetic hormone) wheras Cortef is supposed to be natural cortisol (hydrocortisone)hormone and much milder. I believe Pred. is intended for full blown Addison's or severe inflammatory conditions.

I can't believe how wonderful the people are in this forum.....especially your involvement and kindness, rumpled, in responding to questions. Since my original post, I have looked through the pages here and read many of your responses to people. You are very knowledgeable and kind. And, I thank you. I hope that you will also read my response to loimarmar (above) as I provided more information in that response.

I have been given Oxycodone, Hydrocortisone, Lortab, Nasonex, Flonase, Prednisone, Avelox, Ru-Tuss, Amoxicillin and about everything else you can think of. I'm just not sure what to do as the pain killer's did there job and took the pain away, but that is about all that worked. Thanks!

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I was on prednisone for 3 months, had trouble tapering due to symptoms of adrenal insufficiency. So I was switched to hydrocortisone and haven't been able to taper. I am on 30 mg (20mg AM/10 mg in afternoon). My main issue is tachyardia with standing and any stress and no ones seems to know why. I felt worse at 20mg HC and my energy has improved going up in dose, but the tachycardia has not. My am cortisol was 9.3 nmol/L. Any help would be appreciated.

That was on 5mg of Prednisone from 5/1-5/7, so they redid the cortisol test after 9 days on hydrocortisone and 1 day off of it, just in case. That second 8am serum cortisol test (5/31) came back at 2.7mcg, and I got to go back on the hydrocortisone after doing the test. (I thought I was going to die the night before after a few hours without the cortisone, that's why I went to urgent care.

After many tubes of Benedryl and Lotrimin, I still want to just claw and scratch until the itching stops. I am saving the 10 VS bras that I have if anyone wants to test them. I am really mad a VS.....they not only affected my breast health....they are responsible for the fact that I can not even let my husband touch my breast because I am afraid they will start itching again. I would like to know if I should do something other than buying new bras.

I was glad to hear of the possible connection to VS bras. I have stopped wearing the VS bras, so time will tell. Perhaps now there will be relief to the possible cause of this irritating problem. Thanks to the media and others for making this problem public.

(No lotrimin, tinactin, gold bond powder or cream, Zeasorb powder, etc.) Since hydrocortisone cream is a medication as well, I would advise that you NOT apply hydrocortisone cream to the scrotum area. The skin on the scrotum is different from other skin on your body. You just want it to go back to normal on its own, and it will if you just stick to moisturizing cream ONLY. I have read a lot about hydrocortisone use on the scrotum.

I took Solu-medrol for 5 days again, and this time followed it up with Prednisone pills for 6 days straight, decreasing the dosage each day by 1 pill. Ok, out of the last three flareups that I've had, this one has been the worst out of them all. It's now the middle of August, and my flareup and treatment was June 18th. I have increasingly been sleeping for 4-5 days straight, won't/can't get out of bed because I'm so weak and tired all of the time.

I am on hydrocortisone 3 times a day, and before the surgery i was diagnosed with hypersomnia, because i couldnt seem to stay awake. I would wake up, and about 1 to 2 hours later I will fall asleep. I had to stop driving because i would fall asleep. I am more alert now, but how long will it take to start feeling normal again??? Will I ever feel normal again???

5mg cortison (prednisone), my neuro surgeon thinks we should solve the leak problem first then I will follow up hormones with another doctor Currently Im afraid if I go for another surgery to close the leak it may open up again since there is no apparent reason caused it to open again after the first surgery

I ocassionally use an albuterol inhaler and about 1x a year, when I have a bad asthma flare, I have to do a 4 day round of prednisone, not enough to cause elevated cortisol. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post. Thank you.

causing things were kind of a cop-out for symptoms, but now I know better. Trying to control it with Hydrocortisone 1% (ineffective), triaminaclone (effective for 10-30 seconds), daily doses of Zyrtec 10mg + Benadryl 25-50mg (effective but makes me too sleepy - at least I get some good rest and the hives are totally resolved when I wake). I am just sick of medicine and itching already. Totally frightened that it will still plague me after I start working.

She had an E collar for over a month and I was not allowed to bathe her facial area at all (maybe the lack of bathing caused this?). As part of her recovery, she was on Prednisone which, as an added bonus, completely stopped her itching during the time she was taking it. Anyway, I noticed about a week ago that she was getting itchy again and gave her a bath with her shampoo. I looked in her ears and they seemed a little more pink than normal so I pulled out her ear hairs.

the oral prescription drug that helped me with the itch was hydroxyzine. finally i was placed on prednisone, after i was pulled off of the incivek at week 10.

I've always had dry crusty ears (vs. the usual waxy), but no problems until the last several months. My left ear especially has huge flakes coming out. The itching isn't too bad, but enough that a little scratch inside with my fingernail produces chunks of dead flaky skin. I work them out, then my ear canal gets tender and wet. The next day the chunks are back. I swear if I didn't remove them, my canal would be totally blocked.

Apply the cream overnight. Usually I have to go to the doctor and get a steroid shot, take a round of prednisone, and a prescription antihistamine. It generally lasts about a week.

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