instruction: is there a risk of becoming addicted to 60mg of prednisolone prescribed to anti inflammatory purposes once a day for a month I have already been prescribed this medicine I am not asking for a prescription my doctor has not mentioned anything about becoming addicted and I did not ask when I was in hospital however because of the pandemic I cannot go and ask my doctor if there is a risk and I wanted to make sure that I do not suffer from craving steroids after I have come off my prescription
output: hello welcome to icliniq the dosage of prednisolone prescribed to you must be according to your body weight which is usually my per keg or in same cases the physician may prescribe an even higher dosage depending on the underlying disease the body definitely gets used to addicted long term steroids like prednisolone and therefore we cannot stop these drugs suddenly and abruptly so your doctor will slowly taper down the drugs depending upon the disease response like he will bring down the 60 to 50 my followed by 40 my and so on I would gradually decreased to low doses the body gets used to it although steroids have short and long term side effects they are usually helpful for the disease they have been prescribed for as your doctor would have explained it to you before starting them