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Upcoming surgery prevents prednisone use

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Feb 28 9:45am | Replies (26)

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@pb50

I’d start at 20 and taper down to 4! 🙂

The really interesting paragraph as someone whose quality of daily life is largely dictated by my inflammation levels, was this one:

Experimental studies established the dogma that inflammation is essential to the establishment of cutaneous homeostasis following injury, and in recent years information about specific subsets of inflammatory cell lineages and the cytokine network orchestrating inflammation associated with tissue repair has increased.
Recently, this dogma has been challenged, and reports have raised questions on the validity of the essential prerequisite of inflammation for efficient tissue repair. Indeed, in experimental models of repair, inflammation has been shown to delay healing and to result in increased scarring.

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I too was scheduled for a hip replacement last September but since I was on Prednisone (20mg) my surgeon did not want to proceed because of the increased risk of infection. Thankfully my hip is not causing me too much pain, probably because of the Prednisone so I was ok with not doing it.
I’ve just started Kevzara and will hopefully be able to taper down more quickly. I’m currently on 10 mg and able to do most things with relatively little pain.