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I'm down to 6 mg... Finally

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amkoffee
amkoffee

I just wanted to get on here and brag a little about myself. This past Monday I started 6 mg of prednisone and it's working. I don't think this is from spending the last year-and-a-half unable to get below 11 mg. So since February I have tapered from 11 mg to 6 mg. I have been dropping a whole milligram at a time every 3 weeks. I know this is super fast so I can't believe I am not having any problems, but I'm thinking that now that I'm down this low I should probably start doing a half a milligram of the time. So I wondered what advice you all had

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    Flutterbie57 amkoffee

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    Amkoffee, how are you going now 3 months later? Are you still on 6mg or have you gone lower ?

    I am just down to 6mg too !

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