Posting continuously helped me before to deal with Shadow so either don't
read this or just understand.  :)  It's been a week and a half since
changing Shadow over to EOD prednisone, 10mg.  He has been on 5mg daily
since I couldn't ween him down any further due to his IBD. He got
horribly nauseous when messing with the pred.  After the recent thread
about Cushings, and his recent *good* blood work results, I knew it was
time to go EOD if he could deal with it.  He's been doing very well.  He
still has chronic diarrhea but that was never helped with the pred, only
the nausea. Since he is isolated from the meanies during the day, I can
tell the diarrhea is probably once or twice a day so it isn't voluminous,
but it does seem to cause some pain while he "goes"... I imagine cramps.  
Once he's done, he is fine.  If only I could find the trigger, but I
suspect his poor intestines are pretty shot.  I know the fight in him and
he is mostly happy when he's not being picked on, and even that doesn't
seem to stress him most of the time because he sometimes taunts the
meanies. He just all of a sudden gets scared and runs rather than play
back, he certainly sends out signals that he is playing. He has a great
appetite, and I've noticed on the "off" pred day he eats well but not as
much as the "on" pred day.  That's fine; he eats way too much if he can,
and begs and hunts down Bonnie's dry food. I let him have some of it if
she leaves only a few pieces of her dry in her bowl (bowls are washed
daily here!) He even plays with toys (chase type games with Da Bird) and
forgets for a while that he is afraid of the meanies, and they look at
him wierd when he runs around in front of them as if he doesn't see them.  
Belly wobbling. Then he notices them and runs to his safe place.  His
only real maintenance problems are his eyes.. they run for some reason.
His ears are better with (I think) the B complex, and his anal glands and
poop sticking to his butt (which is shaved bare again) and the vet takes
care of his anal glands.

I just worry about this cat.  He is a good bud. You'd have to see how he
acts with me to know what I'm talking about. He loves my singing. He
doesn't wake me up in the morning even though he is not free-fed and the
steroids make him hungry all the time; he just jumps on the bed around
wakeup time and steps on my hair to wake me up. If that doesn't work he
scratches the mattress, and he doesn't scratch any other furniture, so
this is to wake me up.  lol  When I say "5 more minutes" he lays next to
me and purrs.  When I cry, he comes to headbutt me from wherever he is.  
Not sure how he knows, but he does.