@Lucy1996
Hi Lucy, with respect to
@TedBakerBoy, be REALLY careful with prednisolone, or prednisone as we have now adopted the slight name difference from the US.
Hydrocortisone is a closer match to the natural cortisol that your adrenal glands should produce as an anti-inflammatory. Prednisone is four times as strong, so 1mg of pred = 4mg of hydro. 5mg of pred is the same as 20mg of hydro, which is the standard physiological replacement dose IF YOU ARE ADRENALLY INSUFFICIENT.
Other steroids are stronger still, and some are accumulative, so you have to be extremely careful or you end up suppressing your immune system. I couldn't get hold of any hydro once, and got dexamethasone instead. I worked all the doses out very carefully, but didn't take into account the far longer half-life of dexa. Consequently, I went down with a terrible chest infection which took me weeks to shift. I probably wouldn't have shifted it without then discovering the magical effect of Car's Claw and Olive Leaf combined. That combo saw it off very quickly, but I've never forgotten how I messed up my steroids.
If you do some research online, there's a chart somewhere that shows you the different equivalent strengths of the different steroids.
Starting steroids without guidance from a Doctor is a very dodgy and potentially unsafe thing to do. You can do endless damage to multiple systems through mis-using steroids. If you feel, after researching for yourself, that you are adrenally insufficient, there are other natural things you can do to optimise your adrenal function.
For example, all adrenal steroids are made from cholesterol and Vit B5, pantothenic acid. Therefore, you can often get relief from inflammation-based symptoms if you take 500mg of B5 a day - don't do this at night, because it will keep you awake. Again, I know this because I've experienced it myself

However, inflammation as you have described in relation to throat symptoms is there to serve a purpose. Inflammation and temperatures are created by our bodies in order to "burn out" bugs.
As a further note, cholesterol and B5 make pregnenolone, which is the mother steroid of all our adrenal steroids, everything from cortisol to DHEA and even progesterone, the three oestrogens, and testosterone, amongst others. Pregnenolone is available online in varying doses, including very small ones.
Do you have any adrenal insufficiency signs and symptoms, like postural hypotension, dizziness, losing weight, feeling cold, nauseous, wobbly, that sort of thing?
What other options have you looked at for yourself? It does, at my first quick read, seem like you have an infection of some kind. Unless you are adrenally insufficient, taking exogenous steroids will only suppress your immune system and actively prevent you from fighting off any bugs.
Hope that helps
