Tiredness. Pred or what?
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I've had PMR for m
ore than a couple of years now and am taking pred, although I haven't managed to get below 7mg.
The trouble I'm having now is that I'm so constantly tired, I can only go about 4 hours before I need to sleep. My question is this, is it the PMR, the pred, a combination of both or something completely different?
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MrsO-UK_Surrey steve_1
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Diana112 steve_1
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Anhaga steve_1
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dan38655 steve_1
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Even now, at just 1.5mg/day keeping my symptoms down to a just-tolerable level, I have days where fatigue is a real issue.
It does help me to take a nap when this occurs, as my minimal dosing also keeps me from getting such a god quality of continuous sleep.
I would feel much better at 2mg/day, but I am confident that my latest reduction from 2mg to 1.5mg will likely stabilize within a month or two and allow me to start thinking about when my next reduction (to just 1mg) should take place.
I did take quite a long time for me to get past the range of 5-6mg/day, I spent about a year at that dosing level!
Note that I am just 140lbs, so for most people that would correspond to a somewhat higher dosage than 5-6mg/day.
nick67069 dan38655
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I am at 8-->7.5mg transition ( almost done). But this is so far the hardest reduction I have had. Some of the PMR like symptoms are resurfacing, although I think it is steroids withdrawal related discomfort ( not really a pain).
iellen32 steve_1
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As for me - I have CGA , regarding the Pred I already learned my lesson regarding the way a rheumy does the tapering - too much at a time, too fast for the way my system works. Then the consequence is always another flare up.
At my best time of the day I walk for the maximum if time I can - my be different everyday, the important is to move and to don't stay sitted longer than one hour.
B12 and Iron supplement now and then for quite sometime are of a great help.
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JanSP steve_1
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dan38655 JanSP
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Caffeine will further "tax" the adrenals, such that periods of low energy may become longer and more frequent.
For what it's worth, I still drink coffee out of habit, and am by now at a very, very low dosage level, but I clearly recall thet when symptoms of fatigue were greatest that caffeine offered much less in the way of any positive effect than it might have normally.
I do recommend getting outside several times per day if at all possible, as walking outside even very slowly tended to wake me up for a periodic boost to my day.
Anhaga JanSP
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reggie92967 steve_1
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Anhaga reggie92967
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