Cycling and Bad Allergies

[Triskeliongirl]

Well, I have been listening to my body and staying off the bike. I had been waking up progressively worse all week, so I had no interest in riding. I spent the weekend cleaning up the air in my home. Today is the first day I see my allergy symptoms turning around, but now I feel like I have a bad head cold. I am wondering if the prednisone lowered my immune system so I picked up a cold virus. In the past when this would happen, I would just get progressively better as the course of prednisone calmed down the allergies and the antibiotic got rid of the sinus infection. I am now in the tapering phase of the prednisone. I have to take just one 20 mg tablet each morning for 3 more days, but should I if its gonna keep me from fighting a cold virus (I took 2 tablets per day for 3 days, forllowed by 1 tablet per day for 4). I am asking here since so many of you seem to have experience with prednisone.