I heard from the Nurse Practitioner in my Hepatologist's office on Wednesday. She said the dirty "P" word. I started on 40 mg of Prednisone yesterday. I haven't been on Prednisone since 1996. I'm not happy to be taking it again. I will need to have bloodwork done at the end of next week to see if the meds are working. If everything goes well they will work on tapering me off the meds as soon as possible.