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I have seen so many things that seem to work for one person and not so effective for another. The facebook page I belonged to was mostly keto advocates until they spun off their own group. I believe diet is important. I believe that exercise helped me. Reducing stress helps. I went 3 months without a diagnosis. Then started 20mg of corticosteroids. My wife was on dexamethasone for cancer. I understood the issues with steroids. I went from 20mg to 10mg in the first 2 weeks. 5 months at 10mg and then was able to taper to zero during the last month. Approximately 5 months at 20mg prednisone is a rather long time without a taper. The idea should be to try and find the lowest possible dose. You stay at that dose until you stabilize and then keep trying to reduce. I am sure your April appointment will have this discussion. John has provided some good information.

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I agree with you regarding how to taper off prednisone. I had a mild case (only hurt in bed), so it was hard to diagnose. I started at 10 mg. and tried tapering off by 1 mg. every 2 weeks. I found that a .5 mg. taper was more effective and I think sometimes there were 3 to 4 weeks between tapers. I think it was about a year before I was off of it. It did flare when I got COVID, but I only needed 2 mg. and was soon off of it again.