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Does you doctor recommend splitting?

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Someone on one of these questions posted how to taper down by .5mg prednisone. I would like to see this repeated as I can't find it, an it seemed to me it was 4 weeks of going something like: 9mg./8.5.mg, 8.5 mg/9mg, 8.5.mg, 8.5 mg and so on, changing slightly for about 4 weeks till the person worked down successfully to 8.5 mg. I would like to ask this person to repeat this so I can try it that way. thanks.

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Gradual taper for a softer reduction of .5mg every 3.5-4wks, or 1mg every 7-8wks. It worked for me. If you're on 9mg reducing to 8.5mg, for example -

WEEK 1: 8.5mg / 9mg / 9mg / 8.5mg / 9mg / 9mg / 8.5mg
WEEK 2: 9 / 8.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 9
WEEK 3: 8.5 / 8.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8.5 / 9 / 8.5
WEEK 4: Stay on 8.5mg to stabilise and monitor for new pain. Then start the next .5mg reduction the same way.