I also would like to encourage everyone with Prednisone issues. ...

Hi, I am still taking prednisone. I have been tryng to get off of it since September and am now down to 2.5 mg. a day. Yes, I agree with you it does NOT take massive quantities of prednisone to do internal organ damage. I can no longer eat normally anymore since September 14th, 2007. (I can drink all the water I want, however) I am slowly starving to death, I think. IF I don't completely lose my brain functioning first?! If I eat anything like dairy or any carbs like pastas or breads of any kind or simple sugars, juices of any kind, or candies or cookies, crisps or the like, I go into massive withdrawals and brain fog!! Any holiday foods I must stay away from. I can no longer eat tomatoes or mexican, chinese,italian, pies, ice cream, coffee, tea with sugar or milk, etc etc....The list of 'no no's are endless!! And this thing won't let me cheat! It knows if I eat the so-called 'wrong foods'. My Naturopath doctor says I now have "Leaky Gut Syndrome"!! What the he** is ThAT?!
I feel like my brain power is melting away to nothing and I am going thru daily life in a haze. This is a very real and frightening feeling for me to experience!! I tried "jumping off" the 2.5 mg prednisone on Tuesday the 11th and was in full horrible withdrawals by Thursday afternoon! I cannot even begin to tell you what horrible symptoms I experienced!! I had to reinstate the 2.5 and my Doctor said I just could. NOT 'COLD TURKEY what I had left, but must taper the final 2.5 over a period of the next several weeks!! I don't know whether I'll have a brain LEFT by that point or I may be a dithering, slobbering idiot by that time?! When I go to sleep and then wake up, I notice that I have MORE brain-fog than ever!!! Not to mention I have constant diaoerrea all day from drinking magnesium (Natural Calm) in the mornings to keep from pacing and being a nervous wreck?!