Hi @dadcue! You asked "Did anyone ever tell you that your taper was too fast?" The answer is yes. There is another website out of the UK, and when I posted the six month tapering schedule my rheumatologist had recommended, the self-proclaimed experts there were extremely skeptical to the point of rudely ridiculing my posting. They believed the schedule was ridiculously fast.

Yet, I trusted my rheumatologist, and it turned out that I was able to taper over 6 months with no flares. If I had flares, my rheumatologist recommended stepping back to the last level of Prednisone dosage before the flares occurred. But that never happened.

You also asked "Did you ever feel any symptoms that you would attribute to adrenal insufficiency?"

The only thing I noticed about my adrenals was that after my initial Prednisone dosage was started at 20 mg/day shortly after my diagnosis, my adrenal glands then slowly stopped making cortisol over a period of several weeks. Unfortunately, at that point, the 20 mg dosage of Prednisone was inadequate to alleviate my inflammation. I ended up having to go to the ER due to an extreme inflammation event - specifically double vision due to swelling in the structures behind my eyes. The ER doctors then raised my Prednisone dosage to 60 mg/day. That was enough to finally stop my inflammation. This was over 6 weeks after my initial PMR/GCA attack, and there was a lot of pain until this happened. However, 60 mg/day of Prednisone had some serious side effects, so I was very happy to have Actemra introduced about a month later and to start tapering off Prednisone.