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cross your fingers for me please!

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beev
beev

Hi everyone

I am starting to reduce from 2.5mg without using the 1mg tablets because of my stomach. I've managed ok from 5 down to 2.5 that way (very slowly - took since October). It means that today, for the first time I have taken NO steroids (doing 2 weeks of 2.5 for 6 days and 0 for 1 day).

I have been feeling a little achey at the top of my arms and shoulders and the top of my thighs all day. I am determined that the PMR will NOT come back but am scared about what I might wake up to in the morning! Is the Pred out of your system after 24 hrs or does some stay longer??

Beev :roll:

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  • Green_Granny
    Green_Granny

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    Thanks very much, Mrs K and Eileen,

    So sorry to learn about your knee, Eileen, hope you get all the treatment and advice you need this time!

    GG

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