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First time flare up - looking for advice

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AussieMel
AussieMel

Hello all,

I've been reading here for quite a while and found it incredibly informative. I'm 48, from Australia and diagnosed last August.

I've been tapering off Pred and was successfully down to 5mg. I'm currently having my first flare up which is scary as hell - I think it flared because of stress associated with whether or not to pull our kids out of school due to Covid about 3 weeks ago. At that stage most kids were still at school so we were going against the grain - turned out to be the right decision as 4 days later staff at the school had to self-isolate after contact with someone who had it.

I tried 7mg for 4 days, no good, 10mg still no relief, 12.5mg same and now at 15mg but still waking with the same pain and stiffness in the morning.

My question is do I give 20mg a go for a week and if the pain and stiffness is still not responding make an appointment to see my GP?

Thank you all in advance.

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    AussieMel

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    Hi again all,

    So I started 17.5mg today: 7.5mg this morning and 10mg at night.

    Should I stay on this for 2 weeks to ensure the dose is right then move to 15mg - again splitting my dose and staying on that for 2 weeks, then try and go to 12.5mg - with split dose?

    I was on 5mg before the flare-up and had to go to 25mg to get it under control.

    Thanks and hope everyone is well in these strange days.

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