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Holistic medicine approach to PMR

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jul 2 5:14pm | Replies (65)
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I would be careful. 2mg day of Dex is equivalent to close to 12mg of prednisone. You are on a much higher than maintenance dose. Some people do stay on a maintenance dose because they cant restart their cortisol. Lots of other things may be going on. You will end up treating complications from steroid use at this higher level.

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megz | @megz | Jun 19 9:23am

2mg of dexamethozone is equivalent to 13.3mg prednisone according to the dose conversion calculator. It must be very hard to reduce dexamethozone with such small milligram tablets. Even half a 1mg dex tablet is over 3mg pred. That's quite a drop.
https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/2040/steroid-conversion-calculator

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pargeo47 | @pargeo47 | Jun 19 9:26am

Yes, I've done the COVID Pfizer vaccines...not all the boosters, so I suppose that could have triggered the PMR; however, it had been more than a year since I'd had a booster when it started this past January. As for reference to 2 mg of Dex (dexedrine)...I apparently missed a post on that one. The only med I'm taking for PMR is prednisone. I haven't heard of using Dex since I was in college in the late 1960's/early 70's...I took it ONCE...that was enough!

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