Prednisone is not the same as HC 1mg. of prednisone is 4 mgs of HC so if you were doing 120 mgs of prednisone you were doing about 480 mgs of HC.
Prednisone has it's place in treating things but not Adrenal Fatigue.
And after you were on this prednisone your Dr. should have taken you off this slow so your brain would started sending ACTH again to tell your Adrenals to make Cortisol again. For some people there Adrenals don't come back and they end up with Addison's.
Did you know doing 300 mgs of Test per week can stress the Adrenals and give you Adrenal Fatigue.
Doing any kind Testosterone will shut down your brain from sending LH and FSH to your Testis and they stop making T and start to get small. To stop this get on some HCG. I have a new guy at my Yahoo forum for low T that was on prednisone and it shut down his brain from sending the LH and FSH to his Testis and he now has low T. Did you have low T before taking that prednisone. This might be why your low on T.
Go to Dr. John's site at
www.allthingsmale.com and read TRT: A Recipe for Success and his HCG update in this are labs you need and why Dr. John puts this out there free for you and your Dr.
HC, how is this different than 'prednisone' ? I was on 120 mg prednisone in the hospital down to 130 lbs. That completely shutdown my adrenals and I will not take prednisone again. My gut was bleeding last fall and I just sat at home after work and ate salmon no way I am taking that stuff again.
After a year I was only 170 and things were not healing so new on a contract and needing to put in 60-70 hours a week billable I decided to vault forward to healthy living via the fastrack. HGH and test as me at 185 and was feeling fantastic. Stopped the HGH due to apparent insulin resistance. Test is at 300 mg per week and it felt more powerful in the beginning. But as someone stated above my balls are not shutdown and aching like the summer I tried oral prohormones, those killed me and I chucked the bottle.
Taking 1/2 pill of tamoxifin or arimidex whatever, every week. Taking over the counter reversitrol some days and Activate each day hoping to hang on to every bit of free test.
Probably should go in for some blood work and figure out what is 'off'.
What is the standard things to check for ?
free test
shgb
lh
estrogen ?