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Quite a kick in the pants

 Hello.  So it sounded so innocuous. I had done a round of 60mg Prednisone when I had Covid and had no detectable problems. 100mg was a different story; but, as with all of this, it is hard to definitively say what caused what.  I took it a few days and then went on a weekend trip, continuing the 100mg Prednisone for a total of 5 days. 60mg is considered the high dose but 100mg is often used just before a person has high dose cytotoxic chemotherapy or a stem cell transplant. A person I was with on the trip felt somewhat unwell and vomited a couple times but was then OK except for a bit of queasiness when eating. We went out for Mexican food and I thought it was one of those weird times when a normal amount of food and a couple margaritas just expanded in my stomach, making me extremely uncomfortable. I went to bed, berating myself and absolutely miserable.  We were 4 adults in two queen beds in a normal hotel room. Ugh!  I was up and down, trying to get some re...