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Hi All,
Wondering if this has happened to others?
Currently tapering steroids which i started 4 weeks ago (2 weeks left).
I've been fine for pretty much 4 weeks and now with 2 weeks to go the symptoms have started to come back today.
Has this happened to anyone else and what did you do?
TIA Carrie
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cjb106 carrie303
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On two occasions, when I was first getting to grips with managing UC, I found that once I got down to 20mg or 15mg per day the symptoms would return. Most doctors say come down by 5mg stages. In my opinion this is too fast when you get into the lower doses. I was advised by another UC sufferer never to reduce by more than 10% (rounded) of what you were taking the week before. So 20mg, 18mg, 16mg, 14 mg etc. This means that you end up by reducing by 2mg then 1mg a week over a long period but it's what works for me. Otherwise ,a reflare will put you back on 40mg (or whatever is prescribed) and you have to start all over again.