@johnbishop..thanks for info, John. When you ‘bumped’ up your Prednisone, have you any idea how long you waited before ‘bumping’. I see the rheumy tmo, and I know she has talked about the handling of the pain, but truly, I don’t know how long to gauge the length of time when I must add more meds. I do like the fact that your rheumy wrote a script for 1 mg pred so you could add same if/when needed! I’m on quite a few meds and am very leery about taking more of one thing! Thanks for any wise words you can think of. When your pain was really bad, were you able to walk and did it help?