Long term use of steroids is known to cause all kinds of nasty side effects. Prednisone I've actually found rather useful for bootstrapping myself out of depres

Long term use of steroids is known to cause all kinds of nasty side effects. Prednisone I've actually found rather useful for bootstrapping myself out of depression but it tends to induce mania. Going for longer than a few days results in a huge high followed by a massive crash. The above sounds like nuclear option amounts of asthma meds and it's reasonable to expect potential long term effects. That being said, inhaled steroids are considered much, much safer than oral ones, due to much smaller doses and targeted effects.