Like with many prescription drugs, the question one has to ask is this..

which is worse the condition or the cure?

Although the prescription drug Prednisone is effective in reducing inflammation - the main symptom of Crohn's Disease and other autoimmune diseases, many patients taking Prednisone complain of side effects ranging from annoying to downright debilitating. Prednisone is a member of the steroid family of drugs which have a history of causing some pretty bad side effects in people. For some patients, the negative side effects of this powerful drug far outweigh the benefits that can be received from it.

For one, Prednisone causes a steroid induced Osteoporosis, a weakening of the bones, causing them to loose their density and become more brittle and acceptable to fracture. Usually this condition is found in post-menopausal women, but it could https://medium.com/@dryfelting/ happen to women of any age or even to men who are taking this drug. Prednisone also decreases the formation of new bone and decreases the absorption of calcium from food by the body.

Severe joint pain is a major and almost universal complaint experienced by many people taking Prednisone, due probably to the fact that it steals the bodies natural calcium needed to maintain healthy and inflammation free joints. For a drug that claims to help stop inflammation in the body, this characteristic is hard to understand. One 22 year old athlete reported his experience with Prednisone.." My symptom is that my knee hurts a whole lot. If I am sitting down for a little while, I will limp for my first couple steps of there walking, and try to stretch out my leg, but it hurts too much when it's fully extended. So I feel as though I'm stuck keeping my leg at the middle position with only about 60 - 75 % of my normal flexibility. Here's the catch. I'm 22 years old and I don't know if this will continue".

Other Crohn's sufferers taking Prednisone have experienced drastic mood swings even thoughts of suicide, panic attacks and serious bouts of insomnia. One woman https://olgafelting.altervista.org reported.. "My mind stopped working. I was very depressed! Couldn't sleep more than two hours at a time. I was on 80 mg for about a year. Coming down off the pred https://medium.com/@dryfelting/ was a whole 'nother story. My heart started jumping all over the place and now I'm on heart meds to keep my heart at a normal pace (even though I'm off the pred). I honestly thought I was going to die from that drug".

There are even more side effects reported to be attributed to Prednisone, nausea, weight gain, weight loss, swollen face, increase of body hair, increased risk of contracting fungal diseases and even cataracts.

Granted there are many people that do benefit from this drug. But prescription drugs are not, nor can they ever be natural, consequently they will always produce degrees of damaging side effects in people. Why? because they are manufactured in the lab and are really toxic chemicals not the medicines they https://linktr.ee/dryfelting are hyped up to be.

More and more people are turning to alternative ways to treat Crohn's Disease. Natural antioxidants called bioflavanols are increasingly being used to reduce tissue or cellular damage in the body and arrest inflammation and with zero side effects on the body.

In fact many people who have taken one bioflavanol called OPC and have not only stopped the inflammation, pain and diarrhea accompanying Crohn's Disease but experienced a sense of increased energy and well-being. Bioflanols actually build up the immune system, (not tear it down) making it more resistant to disease.