Discussion: My attending physician prescribed me prednisone following severe inflammatory symptoms. I did feel a significant relief when I was taking the drug, but my condition worsened considerably when I stopped.

Prednisolone is a synthetic corticosteroid hormone that mimics the natural cortisol action secreted by the adrenal gland when needed. The hormone prednisone suppresses the immune system's activity and thus improves the various inflammatory symptoms. Medicine makes extensive use of steroids in a wide variety of medical conditions. (Autoimmune diseases, cancer, transplant patients, COPD, and a wide range of inflammatory diseases, including fibromyalgia.) However, steroids have severe side effects in prolonged use. Most importantly - steroids do not cure fibromyalgia! They only temporarily suppress the symptoms at the painful cost of sustained damage to the immune system.

Link: Fibromyalgia and Chronic Metabolic Fatigue.
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