Let me clarify something since I didn't word it as well as I should have.
When I wrote:
 
>Have seen some nasty responses to long term Pred use: muscle wasting,
>immune system suppression, etc.
 
the nasty responses I saw were by the ferrets' own bodies and they had
muscle wasting, immune system impairment, and other problems.  I did not
mean that someone wrote something nasty about this topic.
[Posted in FML issue 2335]