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Weaning off of prednisone & pain management

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Oct 25 10:23am | Replies (156)

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@joan7

I never thought of only dropping 0.25 mg Prednisone every 6 days. Is this something you did on your own that worked for you or did your doctor recommend this? This is an excellent idea!

I'm sorry that you are having pain in the nerve areas and aches. This is a terrible disease that is so unpredictable from day to day. I have been keeping myself very busy until yesterday when I started with chills and a sore throat. I took Airborne and feeling better today. I plan to relax the rest of the day, but tomorrow it's back to taking care of the kids, dogs, house, working, etc.

I loved your final comment. Well, I'm not in as good of shape as a race horse unfortunately, but I'm too young to go to the glue factory. So I will take your sincere words of advice, I'll "Keep moving"! Thank you for responding to my questions and for all your input.

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After reading a ton of posts on a facebook's Healthunlocked, the posters all take prednisone plus more, I came up with my tapering plan of 0.25mg every 6 days. By the 3rd day after the taper how I felt predicted success at that level. A few times I had to extend due to not feeling well or a cold.