thanks cavalryman! I recently tapered to 2 mg evenly split, but I was in pain all day. Yesterday, I tried 1.5 at night and 1 in the day and that worked very well. Maybe it would also work the other way--I will give it a try. It is hard to cut the 1 mg pills in half but even a half mg seems to make a big difference. I wonder if my cortisol circadian rhythm is atypical (I am a night owl, always sleepy in the morning until I drink coffee).