your Dr must be concerned enough with your inability to taper that he/she plans to throw the book at it. Put you on an immune blocker as well as a PMR drug. This should totally overload your system to prevent flare ups. Dr probably then plans to wean you off the other drugs. None of this helps if you can not get your Pituitary to start cortisol. At that point they just leave you on a low dose such as hydrocortisone and treat all your other symptoms. Like diabetes, high BP, cholesterol, osteoporosis on and on.