Prednisolone reduction?

I had my long awaited appointment with endocrinology today, my asthma consultant had referred me with a view to helping me come off of oral steroids completely but the way things are with my lungs at the moment there's no point in tampering. Basically he can't do anything all the time I'm in and out of hospital as anytime I visit an A&E department they're just going to increase the steroids and undo all the hard work tapering. There's aslo the question of whether it's appropriate to be reducing the steroids during such a bad patch of asthma control, so really we need to find out if the steroids are helping at all, a question for the asthma team, not the endo one. So I'm going back to see the endo guy in about 6 months in the hope that we'll have figured out the asthma side of things so that we know whether we can reduce the pred.