I've been there man. 2019 my colitis flared up like crazy and I was put on back to back to back prescriptions of pred. Would not recommend especially with the insane mood changes and weight gain.
I remember they put me on some hard drugs when I was in the ICU, apparently I was hitting on the nurses and making them laugh. All the people that worked the floor knew my name and came to visit me. I don't have any recollection of who they were. I'm not that outgoing in life. I'm a bit reserved. It was cool seeing hot nurses stop by my room and I had no idea who the hell they were.
I see a lot of people saying, "Prednisone is no joke...I took it and I started seeing monsters in my room." I work at a COVID clinic and we prescribe Prednisone all the time, many times for COVID patients, but also asthma patients. A lot of patients get upset stomachs but I can't really recall anyone being emotional from taking it. I get he shouldn't be training on it though because the side effects can make you feel crummy. The weird part of this story is it seems that he trained while taking it and wasn't able to push himself like he usually does and assumed that is his normal now so he decided to retire off that. Kinda shows where his mental game is. Either that or his failure to realize you shouldn't be training on Prednisone because you're likely having breathing issues if you're a COVID patient.
I prescribe patients this all the time...confusion and delirium is not a common side effect of prednisone. Little old ladies take this yearly for asthma with no issue. Not saying you don't have side effects but I don't think I've ever heard of someone acting that way. There was likely something else causing that, not the prednisone.
Oh I wasn't talking about prednisone just in general being on hard drugs prescribed by doctors while I was in the ICU. Sorry I should have clarified.
Yeah it's crazy!
Okay, makes sense. Who knows what you were getting if you were in the ICU. I just see a lot of people defending his possible lapse in judgement on the prednisone because it made them crazy or something.
I had an episode due to stress of college midterms and I just remember waking up in a hospital and told I was there for sometime.
How long did you take it for? A few days, a week?, if you don't mind me asking? Was it injected intravenously?
I don’t think Khamzat ever comes back, Covid is a new disease but early indications suggest that certain people indeed get PERMANENT lung damage. The lungs aren’t like the kidneys where they can be effective at even 20% functionality. I think he’s fucked from a conditioning standpoint unfortunately. He’ll be one of the biggest what if’s in MMA history.Dana is damage controlling but I'm sure there is a hint of truth here. Khamzat was probably trying to train and shouldn't have, and probably did get emotional when he couldn't continue and coughed up blood in his hotel room.
But, the fact remains that prednisone is not causing him to cough up blood but the Covid is, which is very worrying this far out. As was his collapsing during training last week.
The fact that Dana says Khamzat will be back in June is complete bullshit... which is also worrying. He's toting the company line. The situation seems much more grave than that and we're not being told the whole truth.
When my doctor prescribed it to me, she said severe mood changes can happen and if I start to have suicidal ideations, mention it so the dose can be tapered.
