@ddonnagirl1 - My first time around with PMR it took me 3 and half years to taper off with the last six months going back and forth between 1 mg and 1/2 mg until I could finally stop with a minimum amount of pain (less that a 1 or 2 on my personal pain scale) when I woke up and would get better once I was moving around. I also used the less than 2 on my pain scale when tapering. If it was time to taper and my pain was up I would try another day or so on the same amount of prednisone to see if it got better. If not I would go up half of my previous dose so that I was still making some progress from the previous taper if that makes sense.

The 1 mg tablets are not too hard to split if you have a good pill splitter. Have you tried splitting the 1 mg tablet?