Article: Bone death strikes steroid users without warning.

Excerpts from Internet bulletin board, September/October 1996:

Jennifer: I am on prednisone and sometimes

have terrible joint pain. I have found that BenGay

really helps.

Barbara: Have you been tested for AVN?

Avascular necrosis is one of the side effects of

steroid therapy. Basically, it means bone death.

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