inflammatory conditions
"I have degenerative disk disease and suffer from acute lower and middle back pain. It is almost always at a pain  level 6 and can spike to a pain level of 7 or 8 and rarely goes down to a 4 with pain meds. I recently suffered an attack of Bells palsy so the doctor prescribed prednisone for 10 days at 60mg for 3 days, 40mg for 3 days, 20mg for 2 days and 10mg for 2 days. Although the treatment had nothing to do with my DDD I have discovered that it is actually helping and I have used less of my pain medication, of which I normally take 50 mg of tramadol 4x a day, but while on the prednisone I was able to cut to 2x a day. I was greatly surprised and may mention this to my regular doctor. I wonder if the shots would work as well?"