To Cayokay...I was also treated with IV Steroids and weaning prednisone twice but the benefits of the prednisone stopped halfway through the second weaning dose and the side effects didn't make it worth continuing...horrible stuff them steroids!

To Daisymay...thank you for the welcome and I appreciate your optimism! I have been searching for a year now with nothing to show for it and I am feeling very depressed at the moment...I have an appointment with my g.p. this afternoon and I have been planning carefully what to ask and what to say but now I seem to have lost my bluster and feel that it would be much easier to crawl in a hole. I know that pain will still be there after the appointment just as it always has so what is the point? Sorry to be such a downer but after all the lies, deceit and mistreatment I have had in the last year it is much easier to be a pessimist!