Corticosteroids are like strict teachers telling the body's inflammatory cells to sit down quietly and stop making that fuss. You must taper a long course because if those cells suddenly realise the teacher has left the room, they can riot worse than before—this is the adrenal axis, your body's own hormone system going to sleep from the outside steroids. My life is on a permanent low dose, inhaled, so I don’t taper daily, but I live in fear of ‘adrenal insufficiency’ during illness, always carrying a stress dose in my bag. This little blue inhaler is my *jhandu phool* in a pot—artificial but necessary for survival, a constant reminder that my own garden doesn't bloom right.
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