Anyone out there with incredible pain in joints & depression after prednisone use? I have muscle weakness, pain in most all of my joints& depression ever since I was misdianosed with lupus. I started out with 17 mg of prednisone & went all the way up to 500mg over a period of 6 months. 
The doctors were trying to convince my husband to institutionalize me cause they said the lupus had probably entered my brain & there was no coming back for me . My husband told the doctor's he wouldn't consider that cause he felt the reason I was hallucinating was caused by the bad reactions I was having to the 15 medications they were prescribing me. He insisted on further tests.
 I had to go through a MRI, brain scans, spinal tap & numerous other tests, all of which came back negative.  The final dianosis has been Fibromalgia. That was a year ago & I have been off of all medication since. I just hope there is some way to reverse the damage that I feel was caused by all the poisons prescribed to me.

Summarized question: Can prednisone cause pain in joints and depression?