when i get respiratory infections i need prednisone to get better or else the infections go into asthma and long term chronic coughing/wheezing. sometimes it does even with the prednisone. im started on 40 mg, but if it develops into more chronic episode, i might have to interrupt the 40 mg taper which takes 16 days and go up to 60 mg which takes 24 more days to taper, so sometimes im on it over a month. i hate taking it and cant wait until i taper off of it. it makes me very fidgity,short tempered, and feeling like crawling out of my skin after ten days or so. i have to keep reminding myself that im not really angry or that no one is doing anything to me its just the prednisone. i would never want to take it long term, though i understand that the dose is usually much less for long term use, like 5mg.
it never did anything for pain i had in my feet.