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Flareups, Prednisone, Tapering
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 13 10:38pm | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
To Susanew, My Question to you is what dosage were you taking before going down to 1mg? I taper very gradually and yesterday after being on 2.5 for 5 days I had a flare up - the first in one year! I immediately went back to my previous dosage of 2.75 and today the flare up is gone. My Rheumatologist told me during my last visit that if I got a flare up to go back to the previous dosage. I will stay here for a week and trying going to 2.5 again. I have had PMR for a smigon over a year, and have gone from 20mg to my dosage now, by small increments every two weeks.
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I was on steroids a little less time but I did exactly the same thing. At 4 months I went to 5mg. Stayed about a month Then went to 2.5. Then tried about about every 2 weeks at 2.5 to just stop. I couldnt. About the third try I stopped. So right at about 6 months I went from 2.5 to zero. It took about 3 months to feel completely normal.