Queenie, I'm 76 and happy to report that my adrenals seem to have remembered what they are supposed to do. It has taken 19 months of slow titration and I am down to 1/2 mg of Prednisone a day with plans to drop it entirely in a week. Don't give up hope--I suddenly realized that at 1 mg I was feeling energetic and well again, and my doctor just told me that if you feel that way and you are taking less than 5 mg a day, it means that your adrenals are working again!