Posted by Laurence, errrrr a.k.a. Laurence on July 06, 1998 at 08:34:11:
Hi everybody and hi to all you a.k.a. folk too. (Some sort of secret society thing building up there – do you guys wear aprons and use funny handshakes and things?)
Now this posting is a serious one even if at times it doesn’t seem much like it. I have been asked here a couple of times and reported on my experiences with the side effects of Prednisone. For me they have been very little, except perhaps for keeping me awake. However, as I am normally a night-owl person, it might have nothing to do with the drugs but rather it is just another demonstration of my getting too wrapped up in something - this Internet stuff perhaps (my wife uses the word “obsessed” a lot these days).
Some of you will, I know, find this hard to believe but I do have a sense of humour (at least that’s what I call it). I have always had a tendency from time to time to think about often very serious matters in an oddball humorous way. That is, however, as far as it normally goes. I only think about it. I don’t tell anybody. Much less write (type) it down and email it, post it on message boards or go in to chat rooms and inflict it on other unsuspecting people.
I checked the papers with my Prednisone today and see that one reported side effect is a feeling of euphoria – didn’t say anything about an irresistible desire to tell jokes tho’. I’d better sue someone fast. The drug seems to have sent my humour quotient in to overdrive. It is a very strange experience. I get an idea and see the funny side, that leads me to another funny aspect which in turn leads me to another and so and so on. It’s almost like I am racing through links on web sites. I click on one and go some place else, then another and another. I may end up “miles” away from the original thought. But for some reason it all seems, to me at least, to be one connected train of thought.
I am taking my last two Prednisone tablets today (I will have taken 100 5mg tablets in all over 2 weeks). I am in two minds about whether I want the side effect to wear off quickly. I mean, I haven’t touched a drop of booze in weeks. But this Prednisone stuff. Wow. What a high.
I think somebody should start doing some dope testing on those comedian folk like they do for athletes. I reckon that when nobody’s looking they’re all taking steroids to make their jokes work better.
Bye
Laurence