Yes - you feel great while you're on steroids - you can move mountains and your symtoms are diminished - it's the after effects that show up later in life that are difficult to deal with - perhaps the new steroids will not have such ill effects - I don't know - but I wouldn't take them again - they do have the long term effect of osteoporosis and cataracts to name two and that was from 3 courses of ACTH and two weeks of prednisone about 20 years ago -