Yeah, steroids are tough. I've been on so many - Dexamethasone, Cortef, Prednisone. They're terrible. I'm also on Growth Hormone, which is definitely considered a performance enhancing drug (although no one would guess that I'm on it because my performance hasn't improved one bit!). All the guys at the gym keep asking me for some. I had brain cancer a few times, and I have to take all sorts of meds plus the GH injection every day, for the rest of my life.

Be careful with the tapering of your dose. Slow and gradual are the way to go. Don't want to go into an Addisonian crisis! If you feel tired, sluggish, sleepy, call your doc or endocrinologist!