Welcome @spiker, We are all a little different with our pain experience and tapering off of prednisone. I do think it was harder for me when I got down to around 5 mg prednisone and I had to taper by smaller amounts. Since you mentioned you were diagnosed earlier this year, I'm wondering what your starting dose was since you are already down to 5 mg. Exercise is good when you have PMR but it's sometimes easy to over do it but that doesn't seem to be the case from what you describe. How long ago was your last taper down and how much?