Make sure you eat with the oral pred's. They'll tear a hole in your stomach if you don't. I take over the counter prilosec with them. The food is kind of a like more meds because you don't want to eat (at least I didn't) but you have to force it down. I also found the lower dose but oral ingestion gave me more trouble sleeping. You'll have oddles of energy but it's fake and when they wear off, if you're not careful how much activity you partake in, it'll royally kick your butt. Just the things I have found, they may be different for different people.