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Recently diagnosed, symptom question
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 7 1:58pm | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
Good heavens. Maybe I'm making my daily routines more complicated by taking things strictly as directed: prednisone just after food twice a day, apixaban twice a day with a full glass of water, K2 & VitE & CoQ10 & D3 after an oily meal, Magnesium & D3 after the other meal, Melatonin at least 2hrs after the evening prednisone. Now I'm wondering if I can throw the whole lot down in the morning with a glass of water. *wink* Well maybe not the whole lot, but I'm definitely going to simplify things somehow.
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"I'm definitely going to simplify things"
That's how I approached my prednisone taper. My doctors could never understand those complicated tapering schemes when I tried to explain them. They understood a slow taper but they thought some schemes were too complicated. They said they wouldn't be able to write a prescription as complicated as DSNS for example.
Most of the time, my rheumatologist just wanted to know the dose I was currently taking. They didn't much care how I arrived at my dose as long as it was decreasing.
For me, a 10 mg decrease every 5 years was too slow in my rheumatologist's opinion. Fortunately, when I finally reached 10 mg, a biologic sped things up. When I went from 7 mg to 3 mg in 4 weeks my doctor said I was tapering too quickly. Then I had to stop at 3 mg for a long time.