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Diagnosed with PMR 16 days ago.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jul 27 12:36pm | Replies (56)Comment receiving replies
It sounds like your pain and stiffness is worse in the morning. Maybe you can try splitting your 30 mg dose so that you take 20 mg in the morning and 10 mg in the evening. That might be "playing" with prednisone but many people have "better all day pain relief" when they split their dose. Ask your doctor to see what they think. Otherwise, try it for a couple of days to see if that works for you.
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Started split dosing this past Saturday ( without dr approval) was in pain most of the morning and shoulder mobility was nonexistent. Changed to 20mg at 7am, then 10mg at 12:30pm. Taking that 10 later has been keeping me in the therapeutic zone from 4am to the next morning dose and has been working well. After discussion with my pcp Today. We agreed to take the second dose between 2-3 pm. So we’ll see how that goes.
He also did a referral to the rheumatologist.
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@dadcue, Depending on how the next few days go, a phone call to discuss this will be happening. Thanks for the suggestion.