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I keep relapsing when I try to get off prednisone

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 10 hours ago | Replies (42)
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@southtexas

My PMR is very similar to yours, although when going to less than 4 causes a relapse I have never increased more than 2 mg to get a handle on the pain.

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megz | @megz | Jun 23 7:43am

I wonder if that's more likely to work if you do it fairly early rather than waiting for the inflammation to settle in. My flare at 6mg sent me back to 15mg. I waited for 6 weeks on 6mg hoping that it would resolve, but it got gradually worse instead and inflammation set right in. Going to 10mg made no improvement, so I had to go back to 15mg for 5 days and start the reductions all over again.

To help others, could you share at what stage you increase by 2mg to get things right again?

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