YUP! Any steroid has the anti-inflammatory thing going for it. I have chronic pain from a car accident in which my leg was crushed. I had to stress dose AND add prednisone when I had a real bad flare up of asthma, and for the first time since the accident I had NO pain - it was incredible. I loved it! But of course I know it’s bad to take steroids that way for any length of time, so haven’t repeated the experiment.