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Below are Deltasone (Prednisone) reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. Based on a total of 2 ratings/reviews, Deltasone has an overall score of 8. The effectiveness score is 10 and the side effect score is 8. The scores are on ten point scale: 10 - best, 1 - worst. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | | Deltasone review by 53 year old female patient | | | Rating |
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| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Crohn's Disease |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 mg to start taken daily for the period of 4 -6 weeks |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | imodium | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Remission of Crohn's Disease. Remission included normal bowel movenments from about 15/day to 1 or 2 per day. Cramps associated with diarrhea have disappeared. Increased energy, feeling active and generally feeling better. Endoscopy was done at one point after the treatment and there was indication of only very mild disease so basically remission was achieved according to my gastroenterologist. |
| Side effects: | | Edema, weight gain, round face occurring about 3 weeks into the treatment. Insomnia, headache and hperactivity occurred at 50 mg daily, and subsided when dose decreased to 40 mg daily.
I was first diagnosed with Crohn's in 1980 and at that time not too much was known about effective treatments and so on. My gastroenterologist at the time prescribed 5mg of prednisone daily for an indefinite period of time. This did not help at all, in fact I became sicker and sicker, lost a lot of weight and had frequent diarrhea and severe cramps all day. I became osteopenic and had a bowel perforation 2 years later. The perforation was believed to be due to the long term prenisone I was taking. I had a bowel resection done. A new Gastroenterologist started me on a new treatment schedule. |
| Comments: | | The new treatment schedule started with 50 qam for 1 week. Decrease to 40 mg for a week, and then slowly keep decreasing by 5 mg daily, for a week at a time, until finished. Usually takes about a month. I only needed to take prednisone about once a year when flare-ups occurred.
Remission periods between flareups became further and further apart as I became older, often years, so I am no longer osteopenic as a result. |
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| | Deltasone review by 16 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | severe poison ivy all over face |
| Dosage & duration: | | 20mg taken 3 daily for the period of 5 days |
| Other conditions: | | strep throat |
| Other drugs taken: | | amoxicillan | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | it cleared away my face from poison ivy basically over night. |
| Side effects: | | there were no side effects. |
| Comments: | | i went to the doctors on Thursday. my throat hurt real bad and i pretty much knew i had strep throat because i have had it before. so they told me to take amoxacillin 500mg every 8 hours. it worked real good next day throat felt ten times better but still have to take it until the bottle runs out so it doesnt come back. so come sunday night i wake up in the middle of the night itching my forehead. i woke up looked like a rash. went back to bed and woke up in the morning and still there. it scared me a little bit thought it was an allergic reaction so i went to the doc and she told me she didnt know 100% if it was an allergic reaction to amoxacillin or if it was strep throat. so switched my anibiotics and got hydroxyzine for itch relief but nothing for the rash itself! so next day kept getting worse and wosre finally that night i went to the er and a different doctor told me it wasnt medicine related at all and thought it was poison ivy which i get a lot! it didnt look like any poison ivy ive ever had though. so they gave me a prednisone shot in the butt and pills for the next five days. the next morning it was pretty much clear whatever it was i dont care because it gone and doesnt bother me anymore. prednisone worked great for me. |
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