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I’ve had both good and bad reactions to steroids! I’ve had two steroid shots in my shoulder, and after the first one put me in bed for six weeks, I asked the doctor to “think low” for the dose on the next shot. He gave me the dose he would give a diabetic (low), and I did fine. I, too, have heard from others who were sickened by steroids, but many of us have primary or secondary Addisons disease REQUIRING steroids. Yikes. My gut feeling, after my experience with different dosages, is to stay as low as possible, but when you need it, you need it. I guess that is the case with most everything we take, isn’t it? 😉 I do not think I had a mast cell reaction to the steroid, though. I *think* it allowed those pesky viruses to rear their ugly heads again — and it probably didn’t help candida, either. Big hug…