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Prednisolone?
Has anyone here been prescribed and used prednisolone? My dermatologist gave me a prescription for it, saying that she thinks my alopecia areata is pretty bad, and that this should help.
It is related to prednisone in that it is a corticosteroid product. She told me to take 100 ml a month (50 ml in the morn, and 50 ml at night for one day), and if it looks promising, she will continue on for a few months, with one dose a month. It is a 15mg/5ml solution (though I have no idea what that means).
All I really know is that the symptoms are similar to prednisone. I haven't found much information on people using it for alopecia.
Any help would be great!
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Permalink Reply by Sara on
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Prednisone was the first thing our Derm prescribed... My daughter is 5 years into this aa up until last nov went AU....Steroid shots and clobetasol kept AA at bay for 4 years until college.... Since nov we have tried plaquenil and cyclosporine to no avail...Derm wanted to try squaric acid , but we didnt...Appointment at duke in dec... We will see if any trials available
she feels comfortable with ... We have visited 10 derms and an internist.. Will see... Always hope but keep living!
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I found this study when I google searched "prednisolone alopecia areata" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092572/
Since its from 2009, I think that's relatively "recent" and t sounds fairly promising. I think I might start taking the dose... Going to wait a few more days to see of anyone else here has heard of using prednisolone for alopecia areata.
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Hi
I'm not an advocate of prednisone. If prednisolone has the same symptoms I wouldn't use it.
My daughter has just been on prednisone for the last 2 months...heavy dose, tapering down to none over that period of time. I so wish she didn't have to use this drug, but in her circumstances, it was the only alternative to help her get well (she has just been diagnosed with Acute Crohn's disease).
She did not and has never taken steroids(prednisone) for her alopecia (actually no medications at all for that condition over the last 10 years...her hair has continued to shed and grow anyway).
Prednisone will bring back hair....but there is some terrible side effects and unless you are in a natural remission(which often happens spontaneously with alopecia), your hair will fall out again when you stop taking it (you can not take it for long periods of time).
I truly hate what prednisone is doing to my daughter...but we didn't have an alternative. If she didn't have to take it (and you don't with alopecia), we wouldn't.
Be thoughtful around this, as the long term effects on your health could be devastating.
Rosy
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I posted a scientific study above... although I totally agree with you that the side effects for when I took prednisone for just 1 month were terrible... I am very tempted to take liquid oral prednisolone given that the study seems so promising. I talked to my dermatologist again today, and was told that yes, for now prednisolone is super experimental, but found really good success with it for the stubborn alopecia patients who have already done months of shots/the loss is increasing rapidly.
Since the study says that many patients saw growth in just one to two months, and that the doses were done after a few months, I might take the risk since it isn't necessarily long term. My doctor wants me to do it for one month for now (so this one dose for that one day until I go back to see my dermatologist), and then potentially enother 1 or 2 month longer duration.
Not going to lie - I am desperate so I feel like I would rather have hair even with the side effects.
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Its the same product just different nomenclature. Im a huge fan of pregnosone, I used it on my first bout with AA, and grew my hair back and filled back to normal color. The problem I see and many people talking about is how there dosing it and the mg count. I pulse it and take 5mg EOD this is the safest imo, to jnclude teh research done while taking this and pulsing it.
My AA has come back and this time took my eyebrows off, naturally my dermatologist is having me pulse 5mg EOD, and everything is coming back!
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Hello,
Terrible about your daughter, I am sorry. Can she pulse the pregnisone EOD and be as much as effective?
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Hi
She's just stopped taking it and our hope is that other medications will now keep her crohn's disease under control. Thanks for the info. :)
Rosy
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Also, go to pub med. Close to 200 studies using pregnisone and pregnisolone, basically one pre cursor different. Pregnisone turns into pregnisolone... but anyways, definitely check it out
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Permalink Reply by michelle on
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The issue with prednisone is the severe side effects. I am aware that it can help in some cases. Prednisone is not a drug to be taken long term. So once your stop the drug your hair loss returns. I have AU and I have tried pretty much all treatments with no success. I stop at oral steroids. The side effects are simply NOT worth it to me. I am at a point of acceptance. It doesn't mean that I am not open to treatments. I have decided to live my life as I am now and respond to treatments that make sense. In my experience I make lousy decisions when I respond from a place of anxiety and desperation.
Good luck in your journey:)
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Permalink Reply by Pat on
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I took prednisolone for 3 year because of polymyalgia rheumatic and it's left me with osteoporosis in my spine. It took me a year to wean off it. I felt great while taking a high dose - started with 50mg per day but as soon as I got below 17mg the aches and pains returned. My face started to swell. I'm glad I'm off it but this year had a huge flare up of my condition and dr has prescribed plaquenil as he doesn't want me on prednisone anymore. I noticed no difference with my hairloss while on the drug. I hope the benefits outweigh its side effects, unfortunately for me they didn't.
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My dermatologist put me on pulse therapy this time around (really high dose for very short amount of times) to offset side effects while maximizing benefits, and although its only been a few days since I took my one and only dose for the month (375mg in one day versus 40/30/20/10mg every day for at least a month) I have had minimal side effects.
I obviously can't share anything right now, since I don't have much progress to share, but the prednisolone pulse therapy side effects wise has been a total 180 from when I took prednisone daily for just a month.
My dermatologist wants me on the pulse therapy for at least two months, and no more than four months (idealy only 2-3 though). Apparently, if the pules therapy works, it should work by the end of month 1 or 2, so if there isn't a stall in hair loss and an increase in hair growths by month 2, then it isn't entirely likely it'll grow back by dose 3-4.
Worth a shot in my mind.
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