I have learned a lot in past 18 months from you good people.
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But now I'm in that familiar situation with the medical profession. I'm of the opinion that they have an unconcious tendancy to write you off after a certain age, and something else will "get" you anyway. So they do whatever will get you out of the office without a big argument. They do have a way with words. My appointment with the Rheumy went that way last Friday. A lovely woman but hell bent on going down down with the pred despite my description of pain and symptoms like when I was first seen for PMR. I am supposed t o be going down to 5 right now and I am doing it the DSAS method until I can make up my mind with advice about this being a genuine flare. I'm sure there are posts describing how to back up and how far to go for how long, but I would like to phrase my question in terms of it being a test. From 5mg up to what to really see if it is a flare of PMR or pred withdrawal. Also if as the Rheumy is trying to tell me it is OS, a nice place to blame anything not diagnosed by positive means. So, how much to go to from 5mg/day and for how long to see if most of the symptoms get definite improvement. If not, how fast to return to 5mg? I know this is a common trap we get into but perhaps the answers will be of help to some others fighting the same battle. I knew it would involve me for a long time.
Paul
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This is something I'm using for first time. It is the "Dead slow almost stop" method. I don't have the link at hand but it has been refered to many times. It involves easing in your new reduced dose about once in the first week or so with old dose the rest of the time then two days new rest of week old etc (rough explanation).
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