At 0mg - what type of pills does one keep in case one relapses
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Below is an extract from the uspharmacist site. I have been at zero for three days and will not see my primary care physician for another month. What type of pills does a person carry for the rest of their life in case of a relapse?
"It has been found that remission of PMR seemed to be achieved with a 15-mg/d dose of prednisone for most patients. A slow tapering of the prednisone, less than 1 mg/mo, was associated with fewer relapses.
Relapses occur during the initial 18 months of therapy and within 1 year of corticosteroid withdrawal, all patients should be monitored for symptom recurrence throughout corticosteroid tapering and until 12 months after cessation ."
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faye______00403 Lee-Colorado
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to risk a huge relapse. However, I'm 79 not 50 so won't have
many years on pred......my doc says he has a male patient that
insists on taking 1mg a day no matter what.
Handbrake Lee-Colorado
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FlipDover_Aust Lee-Colorado
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EileenH Lee-Colorado
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The monitoring for symptom recurrence means you shouldn't really be signed off from the rheuamtologist, if that is who you are under, until you have been symptom-free for at least a year. That means your GP wouldn't need to re-refer you which in some medical systems can take ages, but if you are still "on the books" would just need a call to bring forward a routine appointment. In the systems where you are managed by a GP it probably matters less
Nice to see approval of slower than average tapering - we can confirm that works better than jumping from dose to dose.