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Old 11-04-2012, 12:55 PM
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Steroids are paradoxical. If you have inflammation, they may reduce it and improve symptoms.

But they also can cause muscle weakness.
This is more explanation:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/313842-overview

You may have to join to read this article, but it is free, and nice to have the membership...great things on that site.

They have a copyright so we can't post quotes from them.

If you were not on them for a long time, you might miss any muscle weakness, but alot also depends on dose etc.
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