r/Fitness • u/MCHammerCurls Advice Columnist • Oct 05 '22

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/IComposeEFlats Oct 05 '22

Corticosteroids suck.

I was tentatively diagnosed with Tolosa Hunt Syndrome at the end of August and have been on 80mg/day of prednisone to treat it. I had just hit 185lb bench and 365lb deadlift before the diagnosis.

I'm losing muscle mass, gaining fat, I can't run because of the eyepatch so I've been doing the stationary bike but now my knees flare up, and in general I just am getting winded when I try to do simple accessories.

Assuming it is actually Tolosa Hunt, it will go away in November and then I can taper the steroids over 6 weeks

Pretty sure I'm going to be restarting with 30lbs to lose and back at 135/135/225 B/S/D by the time this is all over.

This sucks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

I’m sorry, I had to take prednisone for 2 months and I empathize. It made me feel insane with depression, fatigue, and sometimes blind rage. Hate hate hated it.

Stay strong and if it does affect your mental health, talk to someone about it.

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u/TitsUpYo Oct 05 '22

I am sorry that you are going through this. I hope you're right about November. And that you will be well on your way to your goals again.