I'm on Kevzara - which is my new favorite drug ever!!! Absolutely no side effects and it returned me to symptom free status! After a few months on Kevzara, I began tapering 1 mg per week. Not a problem.till I dropped from 4 to 3. Working with my geriatric rheumatologist, I increased to 4 then 5..I'm at 5 now and will touch base with him later this week. If I can stay at 5mg or below, I'd love it. However he wants me free of pain and stiffness and let that be my new dose and I'm not quite free of pain and stiffness.

Urge you to give Kevzara a try. I was afraid of both Pred and Kevzara but my Dr gave me confidence to try. Also - let's face it, it's a quality of life issue. As I said to a civilian recently, "How many seasons are you willing to watch go by as you sit at your kitchen table every morning, waiting to be able to move?"