Welcome to NT, Thumper. Good luck with the steroids. Some do well on them, others do so-so, and others just take a while to get used to them. Hopefully you won't have to do them very often.

Some docs don't believe in oral taper and some patients (like me) refuse to do the oral taper! I sleep a lot with the solumedrol so can't relate to the non-sleep issue but know that a lot of others do. It does, however, take a few days or up to a couple of weeks for it to work. So hang in there.

Stay positive (I know it's difficult) and you've got a lot of support here. Even if we are mostly a bunch of loonies!