i have been asked to take predenisolone tablets 50 mg/day for a week to treat an eye inflammation?

Question: what I would like to know is whether taking the steroid tablet with such potency for a week or for a month can have any side effects ..doctors have told me that they would taper the potency according the progress of the medication ..how long is the safe period for the use of steroids ..that is, what is called short term usage and what is long term usage..I would like to know the safe time period for the use of steroids...
thank you

Answers:
Your going to be fine. You will probably get hungry and gain a couple of pounds.
I cancer nurse and we give a hundred milligrams of prednisone to lymphoma pts for 10 days in a row.
Pts who have really bad COPD end up on a prednisone taper which sometimes goes on for over weeks. Then they have another pak of cigarettes and do it again and again and again.
You will be fine. Just remember to taper it off. Dont get crazy and stop taking your prednisone all at once.
My ex husband had eye-ritis and took prednisone for his eyes and it worked. He had to take drops which dilated his eyes and some other stuff. It worked.

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Long term is more than a month. That's fairly high dose but not out of line with current practice.

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