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Flareups, Prednisone, Tapering

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 13 10:38pm | Replies (21)
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@ninadavis

Those are huge jumps - percentage wise. I expect to get to zero by way of 2.75, 2.50, 2.25 etc. I cut the 1mg pills into lots of sizes and judge from the different sizes how much to take.

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tuckerp | @tuckerp | Aug 13 4:11pm

yes. I was taking dexamethasone. The jumps are real but I was taking 2mg of Dex which I equate to 10mg prednisone. Then dropped to 1mg or about 5mg and then dropped to .5mg dex. Its hard to get any smaller so I just went off. I had 2mg pills. cutting to 1/4's was difficult. My conversions are not correct either but its close. .75mg dex = 5mg prednisone.

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