On my blog, I have vented about the failures and frustrations that I have encountered with modern medicine, Prednisone being the one that I come back to most often. I have very strong opinions about, and often against, modern medicine. I think it's deplorable that so many of us have to rely on the dreaded Prednisone in order to stay alive. And yet, maybe that makes me a walking contradiction, because I have tended to rely mostly on modern medicine to control my lupus and RA.
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