I've only done 3 days of steroids two times. The first was with a taper and the second was without. I definitely prefer NO taper. Cold turkey is way better for me. I felt my body bounced back more quickly to normal (meaning minus the steroid side effects).

The taper just dragged out the inevitable. You are going from 1,000 mg (1 gram) each day down to virtually nothing. With a taper you are jumping down to 60 mg, then 50 mg, or however they taper. I found the difference between 1,000 mg and 60 mg versus 1,000 mg and 0 mg was small. That extra 60 didn't help me feel less worse coming off. So I might as well go immediately to zero.

But it's trial and error -- each body is different and no taper may be perfectly ok for you. Good luck.