← Return to Polymyalgia rheumatica: Any thoughts on my taper plan?

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I am no doctor, but you may have reduced your Prednisone by too much. 5mg down to 2.5 is a 50% cut. That's a big amount. Try going down to 4mg for three months, see how you feel, then 3mg for three months and so on. After 3mg for myself, I have been going down 1/4mg every six weeks. Maybe other members can chime in and give their thoughts. Hope you feel better and best of luck.

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Thank you for ur reply. Your suggestion seems to be a more cautious approach which I’ll take to my G P as I parted company with my Rheumatologist who was useless. Best wishes

I was at 5mg, then Dr wanted to drop to 4 mg. I elected to split a 5 mg in half and add two 1 mg to go to 4.5 for three weeks, then drop to 4mg. So far so good. Next will try 3.5. Hopefully no relapse. I’m going very gradual after following this group chat.
Good luck