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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 3 days ago | Replies (15)
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I started at 10 mg. because that is what my doc recommended when I told him my symptoms. I only hurt while in bed! As soon as I got up. I was pain-free! It took about a year to taper off of it and I had one flare when I caught COVID. Then I took 2 mg. and tapered off in a few weeks.
Occasionally I do feel shoulder pain in my deltoids while in bed, which may be associated with using 5# weights in my exercise classes. It seems much better since I switched to 4# weights. Not sure if I would call it a flare up or not. I hope this helps.
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It does help thank you.
I just am very anxious to end the prednisone, but I don’t want to do it too fast and end up with a flare and having to increase it instead of decrease it.
I just started yesterday on 1 mg of prednisone so I will alternate between the one and 2 mg every couple of days for at least a week before I scale down to 1 mg completely eliminating the 2 mg. I’m getting there. Thank you again for your response.