@michcan1, Do you keep a daily log with your dose and your level of pain when you first get up in the morning? It might help when you discuss a tapering schedule with your rheumatologist. You mentioned the PMR pain was about 95% symptom free at your 20mg starting dose. My rheumy had me go longer without tapering if my pain level was above what I considered too much (anything above a 2 on my pain scale of 0 to 10) or increase my dose to half of what my previous taper down was if it was greater than 2.