Has anyone experienced weight gain on Flonase? I started taking
Flonase about a year or more ago. That helped SOMEWHAT with the ear
tubes/clogged head/face pain/head pain/feeling spacy, but the popping
didn't go away that much.
Then, after my Flonase dosage was upped (two puffs in each nostril,
twice a day), I gained 25 pounds in three months and had been
seriously bloated and hungry all the time! I think I am sensitive to
steroids because I once took Predinose (which I know is oral and much
stronger) for a skin rash and gained about 15 pounds in two weeks. I
called my ENT and he said there is little chance Flonase, at that low
of a dosage you get via the nose, could have caused it. He asked if I
had been cold or had skin changes, and I said no. I guess I have been
cold, but it's been winter, you know? I wasn't really sure what he was
getting at anyway. I've had skin probelms before Flonase, so I didn't
mention that either.
Anyway, I have been researching Flonase online for hours and even at
the Flonase web-site it says that it could cause weight gain, even
help induce Cushing's Syndrome! Am I just crazy or could Flonase
negatively affect someone like this?
Thanks for any info, I appreciate it!
Don Brady - 11 Jul 2003 18:44 GMT
>Has anyone experienced weight gain on Flonase? I started taking
>Flonase about a year or more ago. That helped SOMEWHAT with the ear
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>help induce Cushing's Syndrome! Am I just crazy or could Flonase
>negatively affect someone like this?
I don't think those are likely under normal circumstances but perhaps you are
unsually sensitive.
Try switching to Nasonex. It has one-twentieth the systemic absorption of
other nasal steroids such as Flonase.
Preesi - 11 Jul 2003 18:49 GMT
> Anyway, I have been researching Flonase online for hours and even at
> the Flonase web-site it says that it could cause weight gain, even
> help induce Cushing's Syndrome! Am I just crazy or could Flonase
> negatively affect someone like this?
>
> Thanks for any info, I appreciate it!
I will NEVER EVER EVER use Flonase ever again!
It gave me alot of sinus/ear/throat infections! Which I have not had since
being ON Rhinocort!
I was given Flonase 3 yrs ago, and I think that it increased my
vulnerability to infections!
I even had bleeding from my throat on it!
YMMV and JMHO
preesi

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