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Hi everyone, Im new to this site,  I never knew this site excisted until I was just browsing the web.  I suffer from chronic asthma and COPD.  I was just wondering if anyone has been on continous prednisolone for their asthma, I have been taking it for 33 years! and the Drs said enough is enough because of all the side effects.  Yes prednisolone saved my life but there are so many side effects, they have been trying to get me off them from 40mg and now im down to 7.5mg, but I feel awful, really tight chested, getting out of breath just doing everyday activities, tired, tearful, and mood swings.  Im also on a high dosage of Symbicort inhaler, spirivia inhaler & phyllicontin.  Has anyone thats been on prednisolone actually come off it completely and has the side effects disappeard, i.e.  bloating, especially the face and stomach.  Many thanks to anyone who reads this!     

Dear Boylie, Hello and nice to meet you, so glad you found this website and hope it helps you as it's helped me. The chatrooms here are awesome. I've not been on prednisone for long time peroids so I can't help you with that, Sorry. It can be very hard to come off of from just being on it for a short peroid of time. Just make sure to taper slowely and hope you'll be able to come off it soon.
If your still having problems getting off prednisone go back to the doctor, maybe you could go up to 10 mgs for a couple of weeks before coming back down.
Keep us posted as to how you doing, okay.
Lots of soft hugz and well wishes........

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I also have severe asthma and never smoked.  I am sorry to hear that you also have COPD and have to use oxygen.

I take an injection of Xolair monthly which does keep me out of the hospital.  It is only for severe asthmatics and costs around $10,000 per year.  My insurance pays most of it.  You might ask your doctor about it.  More insurance companies are paying for it these days because it saves them money by keeping patients out of the hospitals and the ER's.

Good luck to you!

Carla

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