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Short term goal of being on Prednisone

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rocketman42
rocketman42

Hi All,

Aftere several years of sufferring I was finally diagnosed with PMR a few months ago. Rheumy placed me on 15 mg of Prednisone and miracuously I felt significantly better the next day.

I am the type of person who hates being on meds although I am on multiple other meds for other problems. Without having the advantage of guidance from this forum at the time, I intuitively wanted to taper off the Pred asap so after one week lowered my dose to 12.5 mg and was fine. Gave it another week and reduced to 10 mg and was OK. I once again tried to make a lower reduction to 9.5mg but had a flareup. 

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  • julian.
    julian. rocketman42

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    around 10mg/day and above I was keen to reduce pred side effects so tended towards tolerating pmr symptoms.

    now at around 3mg I tend towards reduced symptoms and quality of life.

    I also seek stability. If the symptoms are fading I should probably reduce the pred. If they are increasing I should probably increase the pred. So a couple of weeks ago I had a couple of days of 4mg/day. I guess if I'd accepted a bit more symptoms I could have waited a couple more weeks then needed 4 or 5 days of 4mg/day. I'll never know.

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