Good point Mrs. D.

I highest steroid dose I was on was when I went to into Addisonian crisis for a stomach bug about 4 years ago. I had to get IV steroids put into my body until the bug started to pass in the hospital-but they played it safer rather than sorry, and gave me way too much (not that I don't appreciate the safer than sorry tactic-it is definitely preferable to me getting LESS steroids than I need during an infection like that)-it caused me to bloat, and my blood sugar went up considerably. It went back to normal as soon as I was down to my normal dose, though. Perhaps a blood sugar swing aggravated things.