What pain relief can I ask for when reducing preds

Carol - there is very little I can say to add to whats has already been said.  It's down to an attitude of not letting the 'saviour' become a 'devil',  It will get better BUT it may take time - don't be to keen to get off preds you are very unlikely to get all the side effect and you may not get any - be positive!  How long have you had PMR?   Best of luck

Thankyou all .i have been taking paracetamol and codeine for years hoping it would relieve face pain neck and shoulder . Some times it helped but no one ever a did blood. Test until last November.Take on board what you have all said .

i am surprised with the difficulty of withdrawal .

when I first had face pain a lot of ideas we're bandied about and being the late 70s Ativan a nasty little tranquilliser of the time was thought the answer to every thing so I was put on it for 10years and quite a high dose .A different doctor took me off of it in two weeks as you can imagine the result was very negative .I was then put on antidepressants for 2 years .So I am aware of to quick a withdrawal and scared as well ,certainly wouldn't want to be like that again .Iwasnt really aware I guess what prednisalone did .I only new my husband was put on it while he had a stem cell transplant,and working at a vets it was used to help illness for some of the animals .i have gone back up to 13mg again today .Blood test results tomorrow ,so as long as that hasn't gone back will stay another week and drop half mg every other day until I am down to 12mg and stay put at that for a while .Have inherited a pill cutter when I retired so can even shave of less .thankyou all for your kindness in getting back to me Carol