Welcome to our group and congrats on getting married! I have not had the red goosebumps, but had some hair growth on my face. Everyone is different.

Good luck with the tapering - once it gets down to 10mg the tapering goes slower. I had the moon face - just made me look like less wrinkles! You are lucky that you need to gain wt as I gained 25 lbs! Good for you!

I'm glad you are down from 80mg to 40mg of pred.
Love and hugs
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Hello, welcome to our group. I take prednisone, I have had bad side effects, but I continue to take it as it made my muscles moves again. I have the moon face, I had the hairy face, i get irritable, have memory loss, and i have put on alot of weight. I have been on it since July last year I was on 6omg for about 4 months I have now been tapered down to 25mg. Every month I am going down by 5mg. I cant wait to just be on the Azathiprine, which I take 100mg a day. I hope all goes well for you, weddings are so exciting.

Hello and welcome to the group. I have all the side effect of the prednisone,the moon face and the weight gain. but the good about it is that it really do help with my stiffness. Good luck!

Welcome to the group! So exciting to be getting married!! I too have many side effects from the Prednisone but I have never had red bumps. One question I have is if perhaps it is an allergic reaction. It could be hives. Do they itch?

I had to go on blood pressure medicine from the Prednisone. I got red bumps around my waist and underarms but every other day, they weren't so bad. It look me several week to figure out it was hives. I take Prednsione every other day and it made them go down on the days I was taking Prednisone. It kind of made me laugh.

I would check it out and ask your doctor.

thanks for your responses!! the little bumps don't itch at all. i'm thinking it's nothing but if they stay or get worse i'll ask my doc.

since i started tapering my prednisone (10 days ago) i've had allergy/cold symptoms. headache, sneezing, runnyish nose, sore throat at night. does that have anything to do with the change in meds or did i just catch a little bug? it's not as miserable as a cold normally is

Welcome, Joy...., and welcome to this PM/DM support site. As others have said, Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! The side effects of prednisone seem to be different for each of us. However, when one is on prednisone s/he is more susceptible to germs. So that could be why you seem to have a cold. Anyway, welcome again, and best wishes to you.

I had red bumps on my hips that didnt itch but were raised, they were exactly the same on both sides. Just the other day I noticed they disappeared, so did my purple elbows, so I think they are DM related. Welcome to the group.

I have the red bumps on the upper legs - mine are on the outside of the thigh and it is a syndrome of DM called holster sign. Mine is finally subsiding. Happy wedding!

I get the holster bumps too with my DM, they don't usually itch, just red and raised come and go.

Congratulations...
Shawna