Many meds cause weight gain besides Steroids. Lyrica does BIG time.
Just a blister pack of Predisone for Hives is 5 lbs weight gain. And that is just in 1 week.
My wife went in to the ER for breathing probs one Friday night, they prescribed Prednisone. Back again Sat more Prednisone, Monday she had od reaction, back in the ER in a small room trying to get out of bed pulling her clothes off I was putting her back in bed for hours finally I told them I can do this at home I put a shirt on her and put her in wheel chair. They wouldn’t allow her to leave and EMS took her to the big hospital New Hanover, she was at Cape Fear. Next day when I went to see her she said what am I doing here. So no more prednisone.