Reduced pred one half mg day 4 still feel awful how long will this last?
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Well I am on day four of reduction still feel the same weird heavy feeling in head as day progresses it moves to my legs also not sleeping well,any ideas on how long this will last?I just can't seem to shake this off.
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pamela52328 carol20979
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linda82701_USA carol20979
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andrea93419 carol20979
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Andrea
carol20979 andrea93419
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linda82701_USA carol20979
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tina-uk_cwall carol20979
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imassume you have reduced from 10 daily to 9.5 daily. Is this correct? Because for your next reduction you could try reducing slower and less still. You could try a week, two weeks, three weeks or four weeks of 1 day old dose, next day new dose, in this case it would be 1 day 10mgs, next day 9.5 and keep going like that for any of the time spans mentioned, then go onto everyday new dose for six weeks then repeat the regime for the next reduction.or you could try 1 day new dose, (here I will use 9.5 as an example, then 6 days old dose, (for this example it's 10), then 1 day new dose, then 5 days old dose, then 1 day new dose, then 4 days old dose, keep going in this fashion then you repeat the principle backwards so that you eventually end up taking 6 days new dose 1 day old. Then stay on your new dose for a month to six weeks and repeat the regime. Now both these examples are really slow reduction methods with the smallest of dose reduction. Provided there is no inflamation that is bigger than the amount of preds that you are taking all should be well. It's about conning your body, letting it think it's getting what it use to get but it's not really. All the best, christina
andrea93419 carol20979
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All the very best! Andrea
Judygirl carol20979
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change, in the meantime, try not to zone in on
discomfort which causes stress and makes
things worse, when I began with PMR I thought
my world had ended and here I am still perking
along, still a bit stiff and very tired, but the birds
are singing and we had rain in this terrible drought
which made everyone feel better - look on the
bright side. Love to all.
EileenH carol20979
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The body finds it difficult to adjust to a different dose - this scheme introduces it one day at a time so the body gets usesd to it slowly.
But eventually you will get to a dose that is too low to manage the symptoms - the reductions is not a relentless reduction to zero - you are looking for the lowest dose that works to manage the symptoms. You may have got there - not this dose, but the previous one.
carol20979 EileenH
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Oregonjohn-UK carol20979
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1 day new dose, 6 days old dose
1 day new dose, 5 days old dose
1 day new dose, 4 days old dose - can stop here!
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1 day new dose, 3 days old dose
1 day new dose, 2 days old dose
1 day new dose, 1 day old dose - or here!
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1 day old dose, 2 days new dose
1 day old dose, 3 days new dose
1 day old dose, 4 days new dose
1 day old dose, 5 days new dose
1 day old dose, 6 days new dose
carol20979 Oregonjohn-UK
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EileenH Oregonjohn-UK
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Starting at the alternate days old/new is where the other scheme that is doing the rounds starts - but it is too much for me to go straight to alternating the dose.
And you can stop at any point - wherever it is you are saving a few mgs.
EileenH carol20979
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Oregonjohn-UK carol20979
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1 day new dose, 6 days old dose
2 day new dose, 5 days old dose
3 day new dose, 4 days old dose - can stop here!
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4 day new dose, 3 days old dose
5 day new dose, 2 days old dose
6 day new dose, 1 day old dose - or here!
Sorry!!
Oregonjohn-UK EileenH
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EileenH Oregonjohn-UK
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Oh for an edit facility - I shall be singing that as I shuffle off this mortal coil...