Diarrhea = loss of fluids/electrolytes = water weight loss
Corticosteroids = proteolysis/catabolic effects on muscle

add the 2 together...

e: ur better off without the corticosteroids, and focusing on a diet/herbs that prevent diarrhea/fluid loss.

This post was edited by ViviLOL on Jan 7 2015 05:53am

Unfortunately for me, my intestines are super inflamed at the moment and there is massive amounts of blood in my stools. The pain is almost to the point of when I was first diagnosed with it.

Trust me, I don't want to be on the corticosteroids, but unfortunately for me there is no other option at the moment. Especially with school like 3 weeks away and I missed last semester because I didn't want to go on prednisone. Not missing another semester.

I know it is terrible for my body in basically every way. What I want to know is how bad it is for me to continue lifting while on them and if I could actually injure/do more harm to myself by lifting instead of just stopping and waiting to get off of the corticosteroid.

it might take a little longer for something, but again, don't lift super heavy and try to break your PRs and such and youll be fine

Shitty dealing with insurance companies when they want to be difficult like that. Gf had many problems with something as simple as birth control lol.
But I see. Eh, there's plenty of evidence that cannabis has a ton of efficacy and amazing safety profile in treating Crohn's disease thus far. From what I remember, there's at least 2 I can think of, one using 20 some patients and another using 30 some (placebo controlled, etc) and the cannabis was well tolerated (obv) and the efficacy is wonderful.

Beyond that, from a purely molecular point of view, there's nothing that should be contraindicated at all in that respect.

Hahaha I'm squatting 155 right now.

I'm only doing legs and back right now, due to tendonitis in my bicep and shoulder shit. My pt said no chest, shoulders, or arms.

Just going to 3-4 times a week I think and just alternate the two.

Yeah I brought up the case studies and everything to the doc and he said until the FDA approves it, he won't prescribe it.

Today is the second day of being on the corticosteroid and I can already notice it working. Obviously not full effect, but at least I'm not afraid of leaving the house/moving.

Hopefully I have decent luck with the humira, whenever I can get it haha.

With the sodium retention/hypertension side effect of prednisone, is there any way to counteract that?

I know the pathophysiology of the disease and it fully explains why corticosteroids work and why they've been a llife saving agent to thousands of people living with crohn's or UC.
Keep "feeling" like you said that they worsen crohn's disease but please keep that BELIEF for yourself.

I suggest OP you stop reading what this man says or at least question every word. He says things you want to hear, he is dangerous and a concern for your health.

Such blatant disrespect for someone who plans on going to med school too. As if I've ever even come close to making an unsubstantiated claim anyway.
I would not dream of arguing many of the clinically oriented things with you, you're far more educated there... but I'm more educated on many of the nuances/molecular side of things

Med school/conventional medicine is great, I'm following that route as well. But you need to learn to think for yourself and actually delve deeper into your studies into the things that remain untaught. Many fundamental aspects for holistic health & longevity in biochemistry are never even touched on for most medical students. If I brought many things up, such as hormetic processes, thermoplastic biochemistry, dual-circadian synchronization, and more, and their effect on health, you'd likely scoff out of ignorance.

Oh and fyi, it's not a feeling, it's knowledge of the pathophysiology. If you bothered to read the rest of my comment on the effect of chronically elevated cortisol, it by far augments the same deleterious disease process that promotes the disorder in the first place.
Further, I do respect you, as I do any medical student, but drop the hubris and think for yourself.

is youre in a medical state just go to another doctor, what a pussy not prescribing it

This post was edited by Clicquot on Jan 7 2015 06:26pm

You indirectly recommand he stops his treatment and moves on to the unproven treatment of cannabis.
On that note, I strongly suggest you read the study or at least bother to read the various replies made to it in Gastro-Hepato journals (if you can't find them, let me know I'll pubmeb some for you). This study is horrible, poorly done and has no scientific value at all, *none*. It contributes, like you, to the spread of possibly dangerous (or at least wrong) information.

One of the first thing someone prescribing corticosteroids has in mind is "When the fuck can I stop giving those to me patient plz".
Corticosteroids have thousands of side effects on about every system and organs in the body, and when they are use in a chronic way it's a million times worst.
They are remission agents and are never used to maintain (except in severe, beyond last resort cases). Commenting on how you feel they worsen the disease is pointless and it is a piece of information that can easily be miss-used by many.

What you say on the Internets can have some serious implications, primum non nocere

So much irony
I literally can't stop laughing