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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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@lungranger77

Hello.
From my past experience working the ER, there would usually be a recomended follow up consult which in your case would be a Pulmonologist. And hopefully a collaboration with whoever is managing your PMR To keep you safer with the prednisone issues and establish an objective care plan. Hope your health and circumstances begin to improve soon.
Ernie

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myrlyn3b | @myrlyn3b | Mar 17 3:34pm

Thanks. There is no follow-up. A GP is all I have to work with. He doesn’t know much about the disease so I have to research carefully and lead him.
He will work with me because I’m diligent in what I do. It took almost a year to get the diagnosis of PMR while I lived and worked in terrible pain. The GP I had at the time just kept telling me it was arthritis and to take Tylenol.
I found another GP after my cardiologist and an emergency doc both clued into the fact that I had PMR.
I’m on a wait list for a rheumatologist but it could be a long wait here in Canada where there are such shortages of doctors.

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