... Can you be put on a short course of oral steroids (9 days?) - without that kind of tapering down? (11 replies)

... A prednisone taper means that each day you decrease your dose by a tiny amount, usually half a pill or 2.5mg. ... (11 replies)

... zantac just for kicks. they also ran some labs to see if they could find an allergy...with no luck. Apparently I tolerate everything...but of course, I'd been on prednisone for over a month at this point, so who knows? ... (14 replies)

... Up until I found these posts about the hiddeous side effects of prednisone I thought I was CRAZY!! ... (18 replies)

... I've never had problems with not tapering when I'm on the Prednisone for such short courses. ... (5 replies)

... The doctor said I didn't have a cold, but that my "cold" symptoms were actually asthma symptoms. That was my first round of Prednisone this summer. ... (5 replies)