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Prednisolone making my partner a jerk

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Coffeetree · 29/01/2022 18:00

Just that, really. I've just asked him to leave (we don't live together). He is being ratty, picking fights, flying off the handle, completely out of character for the man I've known for over five years.

He was prescribed prednisolone about seven months ago and hated the side effects so much he stopped taking them. He went back on them two weeks ago on his Dr's advice. Excuse me if I don't go into detail about his medical condition.

I feel bad for him but I just couldn't sit there having him grouch at me about nothing. He had a random telephone argument with his friend too (over nothing), complete with raised voice. Wtf I'd cooked a nice lunch and was sitting there looking at my food going cold while he shouted at his friend.

He dumped me after he left so I guess problem solved.

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Coffeetree · 31/01/2022 08:51

Thanks for sharing and I'm sorry about your struggles.

It's a bit hard being "partners" because sometimes he asks me for help and other times he leaves me in the dark. Like his condition was flaring up and I was puzzling it out, encouraging him to go to the doctor...and then it comes to light that he just stopped the steroids. Last week he was struggling with this sore throat that would not go away, I was puzzling why the antibiotic prescription didn't work, I'm there bringing him strepsils and ringing his GP because he can't speak, only to find out that he'd not taken the antibiotics because...who the hell knows.

Typing all that out it sounds ridiculous.

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