Still working on getting the right meds to control this asthma and still working to get off the steroid. knocking on wood

My Pulmonologist has referred me to someone else for a 2nd opinion.
Maybe this guy will figure it out and I’ll get off the dreaded steroid.
I go see him tomorrow.

The old Dr. was a jerk and had me trying to wean off the steroid in a short time.
The new Dr. says that is impossible when I’ve been on it for 4 years. He is going to work with me to get me off of it once and for all over a longer period of time.

To top this all off. I don’t even have asthma. The jerk was treating me wrong for 2 years!! I don’t know where he got his degree but it must have been a cereal box prize.

I’m down to 20mg a day and will stay there I would say for another week and then slowly decreasing it more. I’ll go to 18 1/2 mg then down to 15mg and so on until I am at 5mg where I will stay for about a month before weaning further. Steroids are not easy to get off of so whatever you do don’t get on them long term if you can prevent it.

I knew it wouldn’t be this easy. I was down to 12.5mg when BANG I run into trouble breathing again.
I am now doing 15mg one day, 12.5mg the next and so on. I guess I’ll have to do this for a while.
Nobody ever said it was going to be easy but I sure hoped it would be.
Live and learn but this is going to happen.