CancerCompass message board discussion started by anamaria on 7/30/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,14869,0.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ my husband,was put on prednisone steroid,during chemo his adrenal gland stop producing,and he was totally out of energy prednisone acts as artificial adrenaline.but now from the medication he has alot of other coplications,like crazy sugar levels,anxiaty,kidney disfunction,all this started with lukemia acute,is any body familiar with this medication?and side efects. anamaria Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hi! My brother in law was diagnosed last week with ALL ph+ He is 42 He was immediately given a bone marrow biopsy, chemo and prednisone We have not seen any major side effects yet but he feels like he is going to "jump out of his skin" Prednisone speeds everything up but your energy is drained...it is not like the steroids that the athletes abuse....(increasing muscle mass) muscle atrophy is also caused by prednisone I am sorry to hear about your husband this is an awful cancer Do you have any recommendation on diet? I am looking for something to increase muscle mass and supplement antioxidants...as they can not eat fresh fruits or veges... la laformg Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 1/12/2008 laformg wrote:Hi! My brother in law was diagnosed last week with ALL ph+ He is 42 He was immediately given a bone marrow biopsy, chemo and prednisone We have not seen any major side effects yet but he feels like he is going to "jump out of his skin" Prednisone speeds everything up but your energy is drained...it is not like the steroids that the athletes abuse....(increasing muscle mass) muscle atrophy is also caused by prednisone I am sorry to hear about your husband this is an awful cancer Do you have any recommendation on diet? I am looking for something to increase muscle mass and supplement antioxidants...as they can not eat fresh fruits or veges... lahello,la i am very sorry to hear about what is happening to your brother in law,you know my husband is now pretty weak  is under going his 5th treatment cicle.wich is as hard as the first one.he olready completed the radiation on his brain,becouse is a must for patients with acute lukemia limphoblastic and limphotic well he had such a bad luck that by the end of the radiation treatment he got bells palsy"half of his face became paralized,they puted him on a extremely high dose of decadron wich is a steroid even stronger than prednisone,i feel so bad for him no matter what i do there is nothing i can do for him to help take a way the pain or the anxiety deu to the steroids.but you know i pray alot for him and for all of us in my home is been hard for our children and me well i am his 24 hours caregiver.there is alot of support from family and friends.tell your brother to have faith ,and be strong you know there is one thing you can give him that i give my husband every day and he says he feels alot of energy,is a juice that i make in a juice extractor 3 sticks of celery 3 carrots 1 big apple,1beet.that will help him to get his red blood cells to increase and his bitamin a and c will be on a good level,so keeps him safe from getting seek now that his white cell count goes down so much becouse chemo.i give dante one tablet of pure vitamin c  daily to help his immune system stay strong .i did not believe when people told me that c vitamin a primary element to help lukemia  patient but now i know it it is true.give him alot of liquids so he is very well hydrated and feed him oatmeal.pasta and get him those can of nutrition drinks with the high calories and gain wait suplement in the same drink they have at ride aid or cvs,diferent flavors.i know that some thimes nousea gets really bad for them but try to always get him to eat something.i hope hi feels supported by all of you tell him that he is loved and needed to by every body and that there is hope and god is there we just have to find him ..thak you for writing me if thres any thing i can do to help get back to me .god blees all of you. anamaria Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Hi, I was diagnosed w/ ALL Ph+ in September 2005, quickly admitted to the Cleveland Clinic...put on a "lot" of chemo and other drugs, one being the chemo pill Gleevac (yick) but it worked. I was in remission in Nov 2005, but due to VERY low Bone Marrow I was tested and told I had to have one ASAP. Some family members were tested but no luck, so I was put into the computer and God blessed me by having a match within a couple months.After the BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) I was put on Prednisone and I was very jittery/edgy/jumpy/moody--laugh one minute, cry the next and throw a fit the next.  I tapered off it, but then was put in hospital for Kidney problems -- High Creatnine count, and was quickly put on 60 mg per day. The thing about Prednisone is that it does a lot to you and you can't control it if you are on high doses. I was weined off of it again and have been lucky this time to be off of it for almost 2 weeks.Hang in there, it is difficult but follow your doctor. They are knowledgable and are here to help us. ohiolaurel Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT systemic use of steroid classed drugs can also include among other things cataracts and avascular necrosis (AVN) which is a lack of blood flow. I had both after following 2 years of the Dana Farber protocol for ALL. AVN lead to a hip replacement. Cataracts are pretty much gone which is extremely rare. batmanthesurvivor Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT