Posted by cellular on January 22, 2013, at 20:13:17
In reply to Re: Freeze or flight anxiety responses, posted by baseball55 on January 22, 2013, at 19:27:16
> It's probably not a good idea to be self-medicating with as powerful and potentially dangerous drug as prednisone. It's also probably not a good idea to try to hide this from your GP and p-doc. If your p-doc gets frustrated by your self-medicating already, imagine how frustrated he would be to find out you're hiding this from him. Why go to a p-doc at all if you can't be honest with him/her?
I know very well about the side effects of prednisolone thus I'm not popping it like candy. As I've already noted, I take it a day or two every few months whenever I'm feeling "paralyzed" and you can read about the specifics of my recent self-administration regarding time-frame and dosage in one of my posts above.
BTW, it is my GP who has been prescribing the med.
As for my pdoc, I can only hope he understands my predicament if he were to find out.I've got the impression that you've never suffered from mental illness, much less experienced what it's like to lack the energy to carry out the most basic tasks in everyday life.
For example, if you were unable to even brush your teeth or wash your face to the point of contracting cavities, periodontitis and eczema:
Would you let your body continue to decay or would you rather take a relatively small dose of a corticosteroid in order to cut through the vicious cycle of "paralysis" and rotting away???
cellular
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