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Reduced from 7.5mg prednisone to 5 mg, but I’ve had morning stiffness and pain on my upper torso and around my neck and rib cage. My doctor started me on methotrexate and I am up to eight tablets once a week I’ve only done it once so I don’t have anything to really gauge it by but I don’t want to increase my prednisone so I’m hoping the methotrexate will help
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Okay. I have been off Prednisone for several months. I have had Symphoni infusion and having pain in walking and moving. I am ready to give up completely. I called in to my rheumatologist and she said to go back on 1 mg
Prednisone 3 times a day. I have tried so hard to get off it that I hesitate to go on that merry-go-round again. I think that dosage isn't high enough to make a difference and it led to diabetes medication that I am now off. Nothing has worked and they don't seem to know how to treat it. Orencia infusion made me very sick and I had to stop. I am up in age so as I said - I am REALLY ready to give up. It is like being alive but not really living. What I loved to do is gone.