had my Bone marrow transplant June 11 2005 still on predisone but very low doses life is managable the predisone took a toll on my personal relatesonship for which i cared deeply about predisone is not good i had to fight back from the effects of it i had to become stronger than it but had to do this on my own to survive otherwise it would have taken its toll on me. but if you fight hard you will survive, Tony