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After flare back to 10 mg but no improvement

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jancorb
jancorb

Hello all

Two months ago I had a flare at 8 mg, my GP pushed me to go down because the blood tests looked good at 9 mg. This was not a good idea, the pain I was getting at 9 worsened so much at 8 it was difficult to get out of bed.

So I went back to 10 mg, a level I'd previously been very happy with, but my flare is still raging, a lot of joint pain and fatigue, I'm thinking of going back to 15 mg? That is where I started 6 months ago, but need to get on top of this, has anyone had this problem?

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    jancorb

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    Hello all, having taken your advice I went back to 12 mg preds and have overcome the flare. I kept on that for 3

    weeks and have now reduced to 11, will hopefully get back to 10 without to much trouble then use the very slow taper.

    I'm wondering about pilates, does anyone have any experience?

    Thanks again for your support.

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