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I highly recommend the book "Coping with Prednisone" by Eugenia Zukerman and Julie Ingelfinger, MD for any one on high dose or long-term prednisone therapy.
It lays out what to expect with this "necessary evil" and has excellent suggestions on how to mitigate some of the nasty side effects.
It has been a while since I read it, but one thing I remember is that you want to eat a very low salt diet.
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55 yo female, dx 9/08, AA/hypo-MDS, subclinical PNH, ATG/CsA 12/08, partial response. small trisomy 6 clone, low-dose cyclosporine dependent
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