Ethan, if your stomach can endure corticosteroids you could take NSAI with proper gastric protection. Anyway, I understand your doctors prefer the corticoids, yours must be a tough case and corticoids are more effective. It's the long term side effects which are to be feared. I hope you can stop using them soon Oh, I re-read your first message and looks like they were suppressed last week, so the new symptoms started. In this case I wish you won't need to take them again.