Don't forget C3 and C4.
If you don't have lupus or something similar, I'd be really surprised.
You don't have asthma, but Flovent would bypass the GI tract issues. It goes systemic, just as the tablets do. It's just as hard to withdraw from, though.
I'm so sorry you are in such misery. Is it muscular pain?
I think that taking time to think before taking a drug is really smart.

Not to compare you to a drug addict, but that's what it feels like, doesn't it? That you need a fix and you need it NOW! At that point, you are so desperate for relief that you'll try anything. I've had that kind of pain and it's not easy.
Put those docs to work!
Annie