[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Whoa-- hydrocortisone is NOT a painkiller. It is an anti-inflammatory steroid. Take it the wrong way (such as taking a bunch at once to "finish the bottle" or fail to taper and sequence long-term doses properly), adrenal hemorrhage can kill you. Steroid drugs are some you do NOT want to take without a doctor's close supervision. Please take what I'm telling you VERY seriously.

[jra]

Poster probably meant to say hydrocodone...isn't that a cousin of morphine?

[Dog Gone]

I was talking about hydrocodone. I definitely will no longer be typing a response while on the phone to my wife who is at work at the hospital this evening. She must have said something while I was trying not to listen, LOL.

[Hildy]

Oy, this is like playing telephone. It wasn't hydrocortisone..it was hydrocordone. VICODIN.

[MarkL]

Whoa-- hydrocortisone is NOT a painkiller. It is an anti-inflammatory steroid. Take it the wrong way (such as taking a bunch at once to "finish the bottle" or fail to taper and sequence long-term doses properly), adrenal hemorrhage can kill you. Steroid drugs are some you do NOT want to take without a doctor's close supervision. Please take what I'm telling you VERY seriously.

He probably meant "hydrocodone." I can't imagine anyone "enjoying" a cortisone, especially prednisone. You're not kidding about it being a bad thing, but then its' side effects are trivial compared to the fact that the stuff keeps me alive...

I've been taking prednisone since about 1985, in doses ranging from 10 - 50 mg a day. I've got Crohns disease, and it's the only thing that can keep it under check. It's played hell with my body, but I have to take it. It really is a miracle drug, but with some very serious consequences.

Mark