Keri -

I agree with Riverwild - do the research you need to do and make your best informed decision along with your neurologist - I did take steroids and if I had known their long term side effects I probably would not have taken them - at least not 3 times - but that thought is hindsight and at the time I took them I just needed out of the situation I was in - this is a good website and the people here do care and most of all they understand exactly what you are going through --