Yep, the bare minimum is what you get no matter the medication or situation it seems. I'm 60 and grew up with uncontrollable asthma and on very frequent high bursts, as high as 100 mgs of Prednisone. Usually it was 60-80, but no less until more recently. Like you said, it's a total waste of time going in just to end up with 5 days' worth of 20 down to 4mgs of prednisone, I laughed when I saw what she prescribed, thought really? What is this supposed to do for me? And it did absolutely nothing! We have to fight and advocate for ourselves! Remind them we are not all textbook cases, in fact most of us aren't. Some of us have been on the same types of medications for 50, 60 or more years and we know what we're talking about when it comes to what works and how much we need to work. We know our medications!