Sleep problems.

Thanks Dave,

I will try taking in the morning.  If my sleep patterns continue this way I may as well get a night job.  :-)

Why 5pm?  I have no idea.  I tend to go to bed early so I guess I just kept stepping the pill time up.  When first taking pred the side effects bothered me when taking it the morning so that's why I took it a night.  I will go back to am again & hope for a sounder sleep. 

Thanks

At the very least take it at the last possible moment before going to bed which should give you a few hours before it has any effect and might still leave the unpleasant side effects to be during the night. 

Following Eileens earlier advice I take my pred plus other meds at about 2am when I will naturally wake to pee. when I eventually rise at about 7am I find that I have a lot less stiffness and less pain.  Works for me.

And that of course is what we are all searching for, 'what works best for the individual'.

As an aside 2 1/2 mg of pred. come in enteric gastro resistant tablets, I have ditched these and when I want 1/2 mg. pred I use a pill cutter on either the 5 to make the 2 1/2 or 1 to make the 1/2mg pred, I am on a reduction program, SLOWLY. SLOWLY.

Cheers.

Janda

Hi all, don't know if this helps, but my dr (and she really is a very good Dr and knows all about PMR) advised me to take the whole dose in one go and in the morning? Christina

I have found I can just take a 5mg & break it into a 2.5 with my thumb nail.  Yes, good idea taking pred with my nighttime bathroom run.  I am tired of being up with the night critters.  Didn't know that the racoons invaded our backyard until this sleeplessness began.

At least you aren't left all alone! 

I think I prefer the solitude to the racoons.  Onery little critters.

I remember way back in the early 1990's we took our son to Monterey Bay California and stayed at a hotel called Lighthouse Lodge in Pacific Grove. We had just got back to our lodge room after an evening meal and left our son playing with his toy cars outside on a raised flower border. After a couple of minutes my wife went to call him in and there was a racoon standing at the back of the flower border just watching him playing, no more than 3 feet away.

How funny, we have stayed there twice.  I love this place.  Last time was a few months ago & a mother deer & young ones passed by our room as they sleep in a back area near a fence for protection.

Back to regular programming. 

Does it still look out over the cemetery from the lodges, we used to see deer there all the time. What a beautiful area it was and what with the 17 mile drive just up the road. We loved it and hopefully one day we will go back. My son was once offered a job at the Monterey Bay Aquarium before he had left school.

There is that part & also more lodging across the street that is really, really nice.  We had a Groupon & they were not that busy so they upgraded us & we had a full suite.  Just us & the deer.  Interesting history as to why it is there in the first place.  I didn't google until after the first visit.  I actually prefer it to Monterey as Monterey has gotten so commercial.

We only decided to go there as my wife loved John Steinbeck novels so went there to see Canary Row (and the obvious Clint Eastwood Hogs Breath Inn at Carmel, now gone I believe). We loved to pop down into Pacific Grove but I guess its all changed now.