First of all, keep in mind that I am unable to diagnose you because I am unable to examine you, this forum is for educational purposes.
The symptoms and history you describe are most consistent with MS (multiple sclerosis), but other etiologies such as ADEM (acute disseminated encephalo-myelitis) are possible. MS exacerbations or "attacks" often occur when the body is stressed with an infection such as a UTI or respiratory illness. I doubt that you got worse due to the steroids, but you likely were getting worse due to your MS(as demonstrated by the new lesions on the MRI) and your new symptoms were attributed to steroid affect (causes mania, insomnia, energy, psychiatric problems in some). Steroids do not stop or reverse the demyelination, but do reduce some of the inflammation and decrease the time of some exacerbations. Your IgG index is on the upper side of normal, I would also suggest that you have a visual evoked potential and a somatosensory evoked potential. I think ADEM is less likely, because it is generally much more severe than what you described. I suspect the headache, blepharitis and ulcers were due to the underlying, viral/bacterial process that caused your upper respiratory infection (problably viral first, then followed by bacterial).
I would recomend that you are followed by serial MRI imaging, and see a neurologist that specailizes in MS. You will likley benefit from disease modifying therapy from the symptoms you have described.
I hope this has been helpful.
I am so happy that you finally got to post. I am so interested to see what your response will be. You know I also have experienced very painful tendonitis but no strep syptoms just an occasional sore throat without fever, weird vitreous floaters though that my PCP say
I would look into Behcet's disease.
It's unclear why your symptoms got worse on steroids -- it could either be a coincidence or, perhaps, your original symptoms were infectious to begin with and steroids may have made them worse. LP findings should've picked it up, so most likely, the symptoms just got worse for other reasons.