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Hi to everyone here on nerd fitness - as you'll see this is my first post- I have just got through reading some information about weight training and I'm pretty eager to start. Long story short life was hard, now I've sorted it and I can actually stick to training and all that's required while doing so. But.. I have one major concern. I have a disease for which I'm given medication for. The medication is an immunosuppressant and stops me from producing adrenaline naturally. It does it by shrinking some gland that produces cortisol. It's called Prednisolone, and yes it's a steroid - but for those that don't know it's not a "roid"-steroid, it's a corticosteroid. (so I'm told by my docs). I take 10mg a day. So perhaps you can see my problem - if you can, could I please have your advice on anything I should adapt to concerning diet, or even training. I am a basic starter at the moment so will be doing a casual 3x a week program to build strength and power, with a little size hopefully. I'm beginning to understand how important hormones are for development, and because of this medication I get the feeling I might be lacking a vital component needed to train effectively. Does anyone have any knowledge in this area, or perhaps know who I would need to talk to about it? I'm not sure if I should be seeing a nutritionist, a trainer, biologist, or a doctor. (tbh the doctors never tell me shit, except that the prednisolone is "managing" my condition). one last thing as well - I'm aware that the long term use prednisolone leaves me at risk of osteoperosis,, so the docs also give me Alendronic acid to take once a week. They tell me it helps my "bones make more bone" (their words when they gave them to me) so does anyone know how that would affect a diet, if at all? Sorry for dumping so much on my first post, but this place feels very genuine to me and I thought it would be the best place to ask, I did a search for medication, corticosteroids, prednisolone but didn't find any other posts. So if there's someone out there that could constructively comment on my situation, I'd really appreciate it.