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Anyone have discomfort or pain when tapering off prednisone?

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 22 7:45pm | Replies (144)
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@art43

Seems a little fast, compared to my schedule, but….
Between 10 and 5, I was tapering at 1 per month. Now I am tapering at 0.5 per month. I do have some wrist and shoulder pain some mornings.
Unless testing shows differently, the pains you are having are probably not PMR. You may need to slow your taper to give your adrenals more time to ramp up cortisol production.
There are numerous earlier posts in this thread and elsewhere in the PMR group that you should be checking out.
Another person’s taper is not necessarily the right one for you, and pain is not necessarily PMR.

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DadCue | @dadcue | Jul 17 9:01am

"Another person’s taper is not necessarily the right one for you, and pain is not necessarily PMR."

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Exactly ... there is no tapering scheme that will work for everyone. It is more about trying it to see what works for you.

I get a kick about "listening to your body to know what it is telling you." I had no idea what my body was trying to tell me most of the time. My body communicates in ways that are hard for my brain to understand.

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andirae | @andirae | Jul 17 1:56pm

Thanks

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