Thanks for the insight. I really appreciate it.

I am sticking with my daily prednisone and disregarding the alternating day thing, it's just too awful.

In answer to your question, the diabetes did not start until after I was on the prednisone. Or at least we did not become aware of it. No one ever tested me for it with all the testing that I had before diagnosis. When my GP doc did do an a1c test after being on prednisone for 8 weeks (from Neuro doc)! my number was 7.4.