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How to go from a 7 day 50 mg prednisone to the previous 14 mg

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Mar 17 7:12pm | Replies (7)
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Two weeks (3 weeks tops) is the maximum window in which you can raise prednisone quite high for a particular purpose then drop it again. Any longer and the reduction must be done slowly. If 14mg is your dose to keep PMR under control, I don't know why it wouldn't be okay to drop back to that? I can understand the nervousness, but if 14mg worked okay before it should stay that way. That's my understanding of it.

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myrlyn3b | @myrlyn3b | Mar 17 11:17am

Thanks for your advice.
When I’d had to do a short course of high dose prednisone in previous years when I didn’t have PMR my adrenal glands only had the interruption of added cortisol for 5 days so when I stopped after the five days I’m sure it wasn’t too hard for the adrenals to kick back in. I never had a problem with it.

This time since I’ve been on prednisone for about 9 months starting at 24 mg and now down to 14 who knows how my adrenal glands are going to respond with the temporary high dose and then an immediate drop to 14.
I don’t want to deal with adrenal insufficiency problems so trying not to make an error.
I’m hoping someone might have had this situation and can tell me how it went for them.

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