Re: Who want to live on prednisone?

[Guest guest]

I am very curious, what is better about Kenalog than prednisone? Isn't Kenalog

a systemic steroid, too? Therefore doesn't it have the same long-term side

effects that prednisone does?

Any more information would be helpful. I have looked up this a bit on the

Internet but it seems to be inconclusive.

Thanks,

Lori

[Guest guest]

Yes, Kenalog is systemic, but it is

slowly released over a long period of time rather then being dumped in your

system all at once like oral prednisone.

Prednisone had very troubling side-effects for me, even in the short

term. Kenalog has not. Long-term, well, only time can tell. I have gained 20 pounds since I have

become able properly to taste my food.

Karl W.

[Guest guest]

Karl,

I stumbled across your site which led me here initially. I did read

the stuff about Kenalog. Actually, I've had one shot of kenalog but

it was just a little bit intranasally. My ENT injected the kenalog

directly into some scar tissue in my sinus. He did the same yesterday

with dexamethasone (another steroid - kinda like prednisone but much

stronger) He is also having me use dexamethasone eye drops as a nose

drop daily. This was an experiment he picked up at a med conference.

When you get the kenalog shots does it interfere with sleep, make you

agitated, or want to eat everything in sight? Those tend to be my

side effects with predisone. The last dose made me very touchy as

well.

Thanks for the links on your site to this group. BTW I live at the

other end of NC. I promise not to make any jokes about ECTC.<g>

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> , you might want to consider Kenalog as an

alternative to

> prednisone. Check out the documents at

> http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/prednis.htm

> <http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/prednis.htm> and

> http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/prednis2.htm

> <http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/prednis2.htm> .

>

>

> I just found this group today. I have Samter's Triad and have had 4

> ops to remove polyps over the last 6 years. Currently, no sense of

> smell again but did have it for about 4 weeks after my last

surgery.

> I credit that to prednisone but who wants to live on that!