[Lilly221]

I saw a new rheumatologist the other week.

He asked tons of questions, and poked me and prodded me. My pain management specialist was starting to think (and I was too) tht perhaps there's some other disease going on because of all my recurring "injuries" at joints that sometimes come out of nowhere.

Anyways, all the bloodwork came back ok, and I was SO disappointed. Sounds crazy, I know, but I wanted something to be wrong on the bloodwork bc that means it can be treated.

I'm dealing with back pain now, and chronic elbow tendonitis, so he put me on a prednisone course for 15 days despite my protests. The last time I was on a dose pack, I went mentally insane. Swinging from rage to sobbing, I felt awful my brain was more fogged than normal....I hated it.

This time the fogging isn't quite as bad, the mental affects not as severe but still there. Ugh and the worst? I'm HUNGRY. 2 weeks ago I was dealing with severe hunger that I think was just PMS. then I saw the doc and started the prednisone 9 days ago. Wow. hungry hungry hippo here. I know things are different right now because last night I had the same exact meal from Ruby Tuesday that I had 4 weeks ago and 4 weeks ago it left me satisfied and not at all hungry for the entire rest of the night. Last night? Starving a few hours later. Trying very hard not to binge and it's truly only being held in check (mostly) by my huge fear of failure at my third attempt at WW.

Right now I'm just counting down the days until the prednisone is gone, my tummy and head feel more normal and I can feel more in control.

Anybody else battle with this while trying to diet? Any tricks to keeping the gnawing hunger that's caused by the prednisone in check?