Depression

[lupus1992]

My name is Emily,

I am just starting to come off of prednisone and it isn't a very nice expirience. Does anyone bychance have any ideas on how to keep out of depression, and if you have any tips on losing weight please help me out and share them.

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[happyartist]

Hey Emily,
I know what you mean about feeling bad...I don't know if for me it was the medication as much as the entire experience that made me feel depressed. I don't necessarily make myself be happy, instead I just accepted everything and learned to be a better person from it. I'm not even sure if I'm really happy now, and I've been doing pretty well for the past year and a half. But I did learn to appreciate the little things in life and I guess that makes me happy.
I'm not off prednisone yet...but on a very low dosage every other day. Do you gain weight when you come off it?? I didn't know that. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif I gained a LOT of weight when I was first on it, and I did nothing for a few months- just sat like a lazy butt, but I guess with lupus our laziness is well deserved. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif After a while though I got sick of my appearance so I worked off the weight by running/walking on my treadmill every day for 30 min. It worked soo well, but I'm not sure if the weight loss was my workout really working, or because my dosage was lowered a lot over the time I was doing it, or maybe both. Either way, even if it doesn't help with weight, it's still good and very important to stay healthy by exercising.

[lupus1992]

happyartist,

Thankyou for your understanding advice. You are my first reply and it's good to know that there are other people out there that know what your dealing with. I have started an easy diet and I will gladly try out your suggestion on weight loss. It's hard being the only chubby girl in jr high, and I find it hard to see other people my age wearing clothes and t-shirts that I like and cannot wear because of chubbiness. Thats wat bugs me and it's something we have to live with.

Hear from you soon,
Emily style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/crying.gif

[happyartist]

Awww yea, I definately know what you mean! I was soo chubby when I started my meds, it was embarassing. I feel stupid now looking back and remembering the year I was on chemo, wearing a wig with my cheeks bulging and everything, and I remember how upset I always was. I came home everyday feeling horrible and ugly, and I hated looking in the mirror. It sounds drastic and a little vain, sure, but ehh I was a 15 year old girl. Not lying, in high school, looks are important. And I looked bad. I know now it was stupid to worry about that, though. I mean, I'm graduating this year and chances are I'll never see these people for the rest of my life. Most people only keep 1-2 of their high school friends through their lives, if even that many. So who cares if you looked chubby or weird for one year of your life? I know it's hard having to go to school everyday for 7+ hours and being surrounded by the popular 'pretty' people, but that's not real. It's who you are, and who you'll become when you get out there that's real. I swear that jr. high and high school are like fake bubble worlds. Once you get outside of them, they will never matter for the rest of your life.