Does past steroid use make you more sensitive to future steroid use?

I've never been on oral pred but I was on steroid enemas for about a year.  And I ended up with all the side effects of oral, it just took longer.  I was on a short bout of steroid enemas in my last flare and even though I was off the Colocorts for 8 months prior to this recent dose, I was still hit full force with the side effects like I never stopped them.  Now I have been off the steroid enemas again for 2 weeks but yesterday I was injected with a steroid in my sacroid joint and I feel like I've never stopped steroids again. Jitters, insomnia etc.  But I find that if I use cortesteroids for other things such as my trigger fingers or cysts in my joints that the same thing happens.  For anyone who has had to deal with steroids repeatedly, do you think your past steroid use makes you more sensitive to them?

It's too early to tell if the shot worked or not - doc said it can take anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks before I notice the affect. But at least today I don't have constant pain when I sit down (He stuck like 10 needles in me - only 4 of which had medicine, the other 6 were location needles). And I was even able to get out and fight the holiday grocery shoppers today - what a hassle! lol

I've been up basically since 2 am because I felt like my whole nerves were on end from the steroid. It felt like I had a pot of coffee! And boy, wouldn't it be nice to have to NOT take medicine to counteract a medicine?!

I have noticed that everytime I start up again on Predisone, it's like my body has memory. It doesn't take long at all (within a few days) before I'm feeling crazy and the rest (bloating, wt. gain, etc) are soon to follow. My MD said it's possible that it builds up in your body so it doesn't take as much to set you off in the side effects... great.

Becky

Ok, glad to know that I wasn't imagining things! :)