Are flares as debilitating as PMR original presentation
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Ive been on my initial dose of 20mg prednisone for a few weeks and feel great. Pain is gone and have begun daily walks. My next visit to GP is in 3 weeks and I expect to be told to reduce to 15mg or 10mg at that time.
I've been reading a lot about the slow prednisone taper method (DSNS ?) and it seems the best way to reduce dosage while still getting enough prednisone to keep PMR in check. 20mg to 15mg reduction will be greater than 10% reduction and although 15mg is still a large dose there is a possibility of a flare.
How will I know if I am having a flare Do flares appear suddenly and knock you back into the excruciating pain and inability to move or are they more gradual? will it be obvious to me when I have a flare?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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jones10939 OregonHazel
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A range of Taper Plans
http://steroidtaper.azurewebsites.net/Solution/tapers
EileenH jones10939
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A word of explanation: someone on another forum took the various tapering plans circulating and wrote an app to make them easier to use as part of a course exercise. Personally I like pencil and paper but I'm a dinosaur!
jones10939 EileenH
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Thanks for sorting
EileenH jones10939
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No problem - the link will be added to the pinned posts too
Silver49 EileenH
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I'm glad I'm not alone, Eileen. It's the pencil and paper for me. When the computers would go down at work I could carry on as I had hand written notes and could answer questions when others had ground to a halt!
Michdonn Silver49
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Silver, I go High Tec mark my calendar. 😄
Silver49 Michdonn
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Love it, Michdonn.
EileenH Michdonn
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The nearest to high tec I get is using a coloured highlighter pen to mark the new dose days ...
Silver49 EileenH
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Now that is high tec, Eileen.
rocketman42 EileenH
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Depends which color !
EileenH rocketman42
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Is one more tec than others????????
rocketman42 EileenH
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only neon pink is high tech !
EileenH rocketman42
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That's alright then - what other colour would one use?
Michdonn EileenH
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high visibility green ! Same as my cycling shirts 🙂
EileenH Michdonn
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Trust you to be different!!! But I imagine you have a high tec bike???????
Michdonn EileenH
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EileenH Michdonn
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Sounds pretty high tec to me ...
Michdonn EileenH
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The new modern bikes are carbon fiber, equipped with disc brakes and electronic shifting, those bikes are Hi-Tech. 🙂