Just so that prednisone and another form, prednisolone, dont get a totally raw deal here: when allergies really flare (as with the super blooms we are experiencing here in CA), conditions such as asthma, conditions which the doc knows 5-6 days will be enough there is a "dose pack". You take a decreasing dose every day spread out pre- breakfast to bed time and it works well. This formula is not meant for long term and by virtue of the schedule it is taken, it is automatically tapered from 24 mg day 1 to 0 on day 7.
With my leukemia I developed some fluid in my lungs and a cough. Chemo discontinued, prednisolone dose pack taken and by a week later all was back to where it should be and chemo restarted. ?
Steroids are not all bad.