@dreamer38 I'm sure we've all done that when we were trying to taper off or down and the pain was too much. Yes, I've bumped my prednisone up when the pain from my PMR was a little too much than I could handle. My rheumatologist was great working with me to come up with a tapering schedule. What helped is he wrote a script for 1 mg prednisone pills and I could easily add 1 mg or 1/2 mg if needed.

@dreamer38 I, too, have bumped my prednisone up and down. I’m tapering down from 15mgs. My neurologist knows that it’s going to be hard and she said to go at my own pace. I successfully went down to 14mgs, but when I dropped to 13, it was awful. I went up to 14 again and I’m like a new person! But I’ll keep trying.
I’m sort of in the same boat as you, but my doc isn’t on vacation, she went to a new job at UT. The doctor she put me with is on maternity leave, so I’m up in the air! I’ll just slowly work my way to 10mgs and stay there.