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Where have you experienced pain due to PMR?H

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 13 hours ago | Replies (44)
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@23amy

My rheumatologist started me on 20mg prednisone & Kevzara shots. Yes as long as I take the steroids my pain is minimal but when I started lowering my dose I had a flare up.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | May 15 7:54am

Tapering off of prednisone and managing the PMR symptoms can be challenging. Keeping a daily log of my level of pain (0 to 10) and my dose of prednisone helped me during my tapering. If my level was 2 or above I either waited a few days to see if I felt better before tapering down or I went up half of my previous taper so that I wouldn't be going all the way back to the previous dose. There is another discussion on the tapering topic that I really found helpful and hopefully you will too.
-- How to Slowly and Safely Taper Off Prednisone but ... no set rules.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-to-slowly-and-safely-taper-off-prednisone-but-no-set-rules/

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