prescribed a steroid to help with lungs and gaining weight fast?
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Sounds like you are taking prednisone a.k.a "good guy-bad guy".\n\nUnfortunately, weight gain is a very common side effect and sometimes the weight can be in the most unlikely places, for example a hump on your back.\n\nFortunately, you will be able to loose the weight from all those strange places once the drug is discontinued. \n\nAlso, I would caution you not to discontinue the drug on your own. You must be weaned off of it, you cannot just stop taking it.\n\n~Good Luck
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aren't you a cop!!!!lol..steroid r illegal..but you can try mesterbol this legal...better yet go to wwww.anabolic.com they got some good legal anabolic they work really good..i at 17 pound of solid mass my body fat when down 8%.in just 2 weeks
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Remind those that make comments about your weight gain that it's due to the meds you've been on to help you get healthier. I know exactly how you feel! I have always been a size 4 until I got sick last October. I was on antibiotics and then steriods (Predisone is the worst!!!) and I've put on  weight. I try not to worry about what others think of me and my weight gain, I just remind myself that the weight can come back off!
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Sweetie, Prednasone is not a pain killer at all - it's a steroid drug used mostly for allergies, asthma and skin conditions.  Do not take anymore of this drug.  I don't know where or who you got it from, but it is not going to help a back injury.  In fact, steroids can jack you up in many ways.  It can make your blood sugar go totally out of whack even if you're not a diabetic, it can make you very volatile and hateful, not to mention, it will make you gain weight faster than 1000 burgers from McDonald's.  Have you ever heard of "roid-rage" - well it is caused by using steroid medications and it is true - people get violent and mean on this drug.  Unfortunately, it is widely used for the above mentioned reasons, only when there is no other solution, but to try to use it for pain is way off base and you are going to end up hurting yourself more than you already are.  I think you need to head to the doctor and let him give you a pain medication that also has an anti-inflammatory in it - quit letting your friends or whoever it is giving you these drugs pretend to be doctors.  Your headed down a dangerous path.
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Yes, cortizone is a steroid. You won't gain weight if it's used only for a short period of time, however, if taken for a long time, you can gain weight from it.
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Disclaimer \nThe following section is cobbled together from various readings and research, dealing with my kid's allergies and nutritional difficulties, and my own experiences with refeeding, digestive problems, orthorexia and pregnancy. I did not keep track of all the sources. I do therefore encourage you to take any information you may find in here and look it up yourself so you can make your own decisions and reach your own conclusions. Please keep in mind that I'm not a medical or nutritional professional of any sort.\n\n\nRefeeding \n-or- \nHow To Gain Weight \n\n\n\nThis one seems like a no-brainer, eh? How do you gain weight? You eat. You cannot gain weight without eating... in the exact opposite of losing weight, actually, you cannot gain weight without consuming more calories than you burn off. \n\nThe bigger question, in our weight-loss worshipping world, is why would you want to gain weight? Fact is that sometimes we become too thin, dangerously so, to the point where we begin to suffer all these negative side effects and eventually death. Sometimes gaining weight is a pretty attractive option by comparison. Being at a healthy weight helps every system of our body function better, allows us to heal from damage, and gives us reserves as protection against stress or illness as well. \n\nThe tougher part of weight-gain is how to do it in a healthy manner. Just as rapid weight-loss can be dangerous, so can rapid weight gain. Many EDs who go through rapid recovery end up with too high a bodyfat percentage, too much fat stored around their internal organs, compromised health, and high cholesterol. This is in part because traditional anorexic "recovery" diets are aimed at bulking up the patient as quickly as possible by fat-loading everything they eat with no thought for the health quality of the food being given. \n\nIt's safer to aim for a gain of one or two pounds a week so as to not put undue stress on your recovering system and to know that you're rebuilding bone, muscle, and nutrient stores instead of just frantically storing fat. It's more important to restore your body's protein, elemental, vitamin, water, fat and sugar balances than to simply send the numbers on the scale up. Once you do this, given sufficient raw materials your body will rebuild itself more strongly. \n\n\n\nIn The Beginning\n\nIf you're deciding to gain weight, odds are it's because you're underweight. If you're underweight, barring a purely illness-related weight-loss problem which should really be addressed by a doctor instead, you have probably not been eating enough. If you haven't been eating enough for a while, your digestive system will need to be retrained. Same goes for extended or extensive purging... it screws with your entire system, and there will need to be plenty of time devoted to patience and healing. \n\nExtended periods of time with insufficient solid food intake causes your entire digestive system to slow down and lose efficiency. Amounts of digestive chemicals in production may drop, and the tiny fingerlike cilia that absorb foods in your small intestine may become paralyzed or die off. The peristaltic muscles that move food through your system may weaken or atrophy. Large meals or a lot of food at once may confuse your stomach and intestines to the point where they cramp up and have trouble remembering what to do at all. All this will need to be repaired slowly, given time to reaccustom itself to the concept of processing and utilizing food again. \n\nStart with liquids. Rehydration is extremely important, since without food our overall water content drops significantly, and the digestive process requires a great deal of water. In the first few days of refeeding you may notice a sudden gain of several pounds... this is most likely, if you're doing everything right, your water balance trying to straighten itself out. You may feel bloated for a while as this happens an
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There is one study that suggests artificial sweeteners increase cortisone, a hormone that can cause weight gain.  It has nothing to do with not satisfying your craving for sweets.  However, cortisone really doesn't increase your weight, it increases your appetite.  If you follow any diet in which you are watching the amount of calories you consume, you can have as much Diet Soda as you want, and it will not effect your weight.  Regular soda is MUCH worse than any diet soda.  Not only is regular soda high in calories, but those calories come from high fructose corn syrup - a particularly nasty sugar that actually turns off your sensation of being full.  So, if you are going to watch your calorie intake (and how many you burn, too), you should be fine.  I do recommend Coke Zero, however, because drinks sweetened with Splenda are better for you than with Aspartame.
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you shouldnt take steroids, any are bad for you if that is a picture of you, you look fine. if you way to get a little muscular, do curlups and crunches and weight lift.
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The drug you mention is very controversial. It is called clenbuterol and it is used to treat asthma in hourses. Don't take it. \n\nThe drug has apparently caused in some people rapid heartbeat, twitching eyes, out of control nerves, etc. It can stiffen the heart muscle causing major problems to the cardiac function.\n\nMost important to remember:\n\n1) The drug is not manufactured for human consumption.\n\n2) It can create "irreversable" effects to your heart.\n\nMost professional sporting associations, including the Olympics, ban the drug - and with good reason. Why would you want to take something so dangerous?\n\nIf you want to lose weight, look at other proven methods to so that are natural and won't cause you a lot of harm. One of the biggest natural ways to lose weight is to drink a lot more water. See my third source for details.
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http://forums.steroid.com/showthread.php?t=7774
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After doing some research I would say i wouldnt want to try it.  Its a steroid and could be very dangerous.  The excerpt below also says there are counterfeirts around and only to use tablets which come in foil and plastic strips with box and paperwork.\n\n"Clenbuterol, medically used throughout many parts of the world as a broncodilator for the treatment of asthma, is a recent and popular addition to the realm of athletics. Clenbuterol is a beta-2 agonist, with properties somewhat similar to adrenaline. \n    Clenbuterol generally come is 20mcg tablets, although it is also available in syrup and injectable form. Users will usually tailor there dosage individually, depending on results and side effects, but somewhere in the range of 2-8 tablets per day is most common.\n\n    For fat loss, clenbuterol seems to stay effective for 3-6 weeks, then it's thermogenic properties seem to subside. This is noticed when the body temperature drops back to normal. It's anabolic properties subside much quicker, somewhere around 18 days.\n\n    Currently, counterfeits of clenbuterol do exist, but they are scarce and most are bottles with loose tablets. Clenbuterol should only be trusted when purchased in foil and plastic strips, preferably with accompanying box and paperwork."\n\nExcerpt from site below
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hmmm..\nyou can see how albuterol sulfate (asthma medicine) changes someone's breathing or heart rate lol
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I was taking Prednisone for 3 months after the Doctor diagnosed me with fibromyalgia. I cheated with the meds. I would take the meds for two weeks and gain 5 lbs, then I would stop for two weeks, lose the weight and use only Tylenol in the morning. It was livable. I am no longer taking Prednisone since the Doctor has put me on a different medication.
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"Steroid" is a general term, strictly it refers to any hormone whose molecule looks like that of cholesterol!\n\nThe most talked-about steroids are the anabolic steroids, such as testosterone.  These are what are used by athletes such as bodybuilders to achieve gains in muscle mass.  Dehydroxytestosterone is one long fancy chemical name for a popular anabolic.\n\nBut, there are also such things as "catabolic" steroids.  "Catabolic" means to break down ("anabolic" means build up, of course!).  Cortisol, a catabolic hormone made by our own bodies, is produced in response to various stressors; it tames our immune system and tries to stop it from overreacting.  In the process, it has to break down muscle tissue and become prepared to store excess energy in the form of fat.  People with excess cortisol (generally due to a tumor) generally have what is known as a Cushing's disorder, and obesity is its hallmark.\n\nCortisol and molecules like it are also given as drugs for various conditions, including multiple sclerosis, lupus, cancers, asthma, allergies, and the list goes on.  Cortisol's family is the "corticosteroids", and includes corticosterone, methylprednilosone, prednisone, and dexamethasone.  People do get put on these for various conditions, again... so if they're telling you they're taking steroids, it's probably not the kind that'll buff 'em up! ;-)
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well it will shrink his testicles not his private as people think. Its all water weight that he will gain and not muscle. What happens is that when he stops taking the gear he will then lose the water weight any lifting he did while on it will show once the water disappears and he will seem a little more ripped. As far as staying on it he would look bulked up but again not from muscle but only water. He will have to keep going to doctors every 3 months and checking his kidney and liver levels and on his off months would need to take a counter steroid so he doesn't build to much estrogen and so forth. There is clomid for these types of off peek problems. Its to much trouble for simple gains. The only people that benefit from taking steroids are weight lifters in competitions and wrestlers to show that they are buffed up. If he doesn't do any of these he is just being vain and trying to follow a dream of being big. Tell him to continue to lift and do it the right way other wise hes looking at a life of chemo therapy or dialysis if he messes up. Dont enable him with these things if you truly love him. Keep your foot down, As well if you plan to have kids there has been mention that you are messing up your dna strands and could pass down to your children some mental disfunctions or worse. \nLots of problems for just 20 lbs of looking good. \nAnd last as i just mentioned with weight, if he does it natural he could gain 8 lbs a month, with gear "Steroids" he would gain aprox 11lbs a month so as you can see not a big difference.
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Challanging...You'll get a new person; the one you know will die, and a new one re-born.\n\nMy dad had a lung transplant...weirdly enough, my co-workers mom had a double lung transplant 5 months after my dad's.\n\nAnyways, when part/all of the lung is removed, oxygen is still needed.  Most HMO's start the poor patient off with heavy oxygen tanks (20-30 lbs).  This is crazy because the patient has a hard time breathing, and to carry heavy oxygen is defeating the purpose.  Have them ask for lighter oxygen tanks (some only weigh 5 lbs).\n\nMost likely, they will have to increase their "Prednisone".  This drug is freaky!  I've found that a side effect is it makes the person MEAN. My dad was one of the most patient, loving, and forgiving humans I've ever meet.  When he was on "Prednisone", I swear, he was possesed by a demone...like in the first Exorcist...just real foul things came out of his mouth...\n\nIf your friend has trouble after the removal of part/all of the lung, then you may suggest to them to look into "Pallitative" care.  This is when a person needs help but IS NOT terminally ill.  Then this person can get nurses to help with medications, monitoring vitals, administering medications, and showers (ect).\n\nHope this helps.
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No, Flovent would not cause your little girl to gain weight.  Steroids have to be taken in a large dosage and over a period of time to cause weight gain.  \n\nI have used Flovent and developed oral candidiasis which made my breath smell bad. My doctor prescribed a oral rinse that took care of it.  Common side affects are Pharyngitis, nasal congestion, sinusitis, runny nose, laryngitis, allergic rhinitis, oral candidiasis, URI's, and headaches.  Hopefully she will not be bothered with any of these.