skin problems on prednisone? Am I infection prone?

If your rash is due to fungus/yeast infection and not something else the following has helped me, with advice and tips from my doctor. We are probably not allowed to give brand names but you can also buy a cream containing hydrocortisone over the counter, and if the condition doesn’t clear talk to your doctor about a cream which includes a low dose anti biotic. You apply it locally 3 times a day and it can be combined with a pessary. Wear skirts when you can, cotton underwear, avoid those wet wipes when you go to the loo, reduce sugar and acid creating foods, just use water to clean the tender area and avoid soap. Hope this helps and that this rash is at least a simpler symptom which can be helped. It’s uncomfortable and lowering. 

Just FYI, over the counter hydrocortisone cream did not work for me, nor did the candida cream. Just not a strong enough anti-fungal agent I guess. The prescription I get here in Canada is a 1:1 compound of hydrocortisone and nystatin..

Pam, I worry about self diagnosis with these things and self treatment. Some antifungals are contraindicated with pred. 

My father had an eczema type rash for many years on his legs. He tried all sorts of otc creams but the rash started to spread. I finally took him to a skin specialist. His diagnosis cutaneous T cell lymphoma. The treatment: take a certain medication and go stand in a light box. This put him into remission and he lived to 81.

Another thought: an allergy to a cream or other products can occur at any time despite years of previous successful use. In my case before pred I had a rash on my chest for which a steroid cream was prescribed. The rash got worse. I eventually went for skin testing: the verdict: allergy to propylene glycol a common stabilizer in many meds and cosmetics. I am also allergic to the neosporin in many otc antibiotic preparations. All this born out in skin testing.

Responding to the little conversation here about hydrocortisone ointments.  I've had experience of this, and I have to say it gave me a dress rehearsal for tapering prednisone.  Used to get patchy, itchy red skin, especially on my hands, and cortisone would be prescribed by the doctor, but the condition would always come back after I discontinued the medication.  Eventually I learned there was a rebound reaction.  I started first of all to reduce the power of the medication by switching to the otc version.  Then I spent quite a long time looking for another cream or lotioin which would help me.  I tried everything, from vaseline to olive oil to the most expensive items in the pharmacy.  in the end I was by chance given a bottle of food grade h*** oil and this made all the difference.  Over time I no longer needed the hydrocortisone, and using this oil, and also a product from the pharmacy which contains shea butter, I've been fine.  The apparent cure (although I think it's like PMR and is really always there waiting to flare up) was long before PMR and pred.