Your treatment sounds unconventional to me. Maybe read this new post.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-and-prednisone/?pg=1#comment-1143766
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or the following:
"Joint guidelines from the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conditionally recommend starting corticosteroid therapy with 12.5-25 mg/day of prednisone or the equivalent. [30] A systematic examination of the peer-reviewed literature, which included 30 studies, found that most patients seemed to achieve remission of PMR with a starting dose of prednisone at 15 mg/day. A slow tapering of the prednisone, less than 1 mg/month, was associated with fewer relapses. Once prednisone is tapered to 10 mg/day, a further slow taper by 1 mg every 2 months until treatment discontinuation was associated with optimal control of disease activity. [43]"
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/330815-treatment?form=fpf

What have you been diagnosed with? It doesn't sound like treatment for polymyalgia rheumatica. Short term pulse dosing of prednisone is given for all sorts of things. It can be given in a high dose then dropped and discontinued quickly without the need for tapering if it is done in less than two weeks.

Actually yes abd never context the issue. Thanks.

Yes I had bouts of diarrhoea with every taper alongside of nausea and headaches
Stopped finally after 2 years and have been told it will be months as my body recovers I lost all my muscle strength and have discomfort but just working on gradually building it up
I know prednisone is a very helpful drug but I had such adverse side effects it is written in my medical notes not to prescribe it for me unless I have a life threatening illness that requires it
Tapering off it and now recovering is a journey all good wishes to you as you taper

I too recently was prescribed 40 mgs for 5 days with no taper. I actually posted a question here asking whether I’d have side effects from stopping 40 mgs so abruptly. The consensus here was I’d be fine and sure enough I was.