After a month of NO prednisone and dealing with pain that was making my life miserable, I went to the doctors and agreed to go back on at 5 mgs only.

I also take Tylenol in and organized time. Took me about two weeks to get the steroid and Tylenol to work best for me and I feel pretty good.

I take my prednisone around 7 pm, as it makes me light headed/dizzy and I am usually relaxing and watching my fave tv programs.

I take an extra strength 630 mg Tylenol around 7 am. Works for 8 hrs and gives me a pretty good day (prednisone is still in my system from the night before).

I will add one 500mg of Tylenol if needed around 2 in the afternoon.

So far so good.

I know Tylenol has its downside- but at 75 yrs old in August, I felt like I had no life with so much pain.

I still deal with balled up muscle pain in both upper arms…..was approved for acupuncture so we shall see if that helps that area when they call for an appointment.