Hi @sammiesarah, welcome to Connect. My PMR is currently in remission and I've had 2 occurrences of PMR. The first one lasted 3 years and I felt a little like you although your's is definitely worse than what mine was. A 20 mg dosage of prednisone made my pain go away but I struggled tapering down and if I did it too quickly it reared it's ugly head back up and the pain was bad.

What type of tapering schedule were you using? I worked closely using recommendations by my Mayo rheumatologist who told me about one of his patients that took 1/2 mg for a year going back and forth every few weeks from 1/2 mg to zero until he was able to stop taking it with minimal pain. For me, I had to go between 1/2 mg and 1 mg for about six months before I was able to taper off of prednisone.

Diet may also play a part in helping with PMR. Here's some information about it. I now try to stay away from most if not all processed foods. I still have my days though ☺

What to eat if you have polymyalgia rheumatica
-- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321683.php