• Effectiveness

  Major (for stiffness/spasticity)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 5 mg/5 mL Daily

Advice & Tips: eat tums drink water often

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for relapse MS (exacerbation))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 60 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Managing this treatment was very easy for me I would usually wake up and take my dosage which was 3 tablets daily with my breakfast (Always take with food). I did experience a little heart burn but thats about it. I didnt experience any unexpected benefits, and it did help recover from my relapse a little quicker so over all id say it was a pretty good experience. On the cost I just chose something they didnt have what it really cost my i paid $8 one time at the time the prescription was filled and i was on it approximately for two weeks.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (tachycardia (fast heart rate))
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 60 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: increase in energy level; burning and pain in feet stopped; numbness in left leg stopped; after decreasing dose ended symptoms are beginning to come back

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: tachycardia (fast heart rate)

• Effectiveness

  None (for inflammation)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 60 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for transplant rejection prevention)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (head pain, migraines)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Right after I started taking this I developed migraines. When one put me in the hospital this was the drug they lowered the Rx on. I had never had migraines. I'd rather be stabbed or shot. I walk around on eggshells now.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: head pain, migraines

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for inflammation)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (osteoporosis, Cushing's syndrome, mood swings, skin irritation, elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia))
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: All I can say is that this is the cheapest drug of my current list and it is the one I hate the most. The weight gain, water retention, the outburst, the moods, the irritation, just all of it I hate, but there is one thing I hate more and that is dialysis. My hope is that some day the pharmacutical industry will come up with an anti-inflammatory drug that is not a steroid. If they focused on that it would do very well.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: elevated blood sugar (hyperglycemia), mood swings, skin irritation

• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for transplant rejection prevention)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (mood swings, weight gain, joint pain)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Prednisone has so many physical and mental side effects. I've been begging my doctors to take me off of it from the day of transplant until now but they won't. I get emotionally crazy, blow up at people for no reason, cry all the time. I have gained a ton of weight because of it. I sometimes feel pain in my bones and joints.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: joint pain, weight gain, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (weight gain)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 60 mg Daily

Cost: $25-49 monthly

Side effects: weight gain, excessive gas

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for relapse MS (exacerbation))
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 100 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nephrotic syndrome)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (irregular menstrual periods, bald patch (alopecia))
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 60 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: I believe it is taking the Prednisone from age 3 years 'til I was in 7th grade, that has caused my patch of baldness with my hair. I also believe it is why I have hair growing on my upper lip and chin.

Side effects: hair on upper lip and chin, bald patch (alopecia), irregular menstrual periods