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OTC pain relief while on Prednisone?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
Same dose as you. I always wake up around 3-4 am and I have pain in my hands. I take 2 Tylenol Arthriti, go back to sleep till 5am and hands are less painful. I take my prednisone at 8 am. My rheumatologist is against splitting my dose as he wants the 15 mg to carry me into the night which is does.
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Some rheumatologists are adamant about taking the entire Prednisone dose in the morning. There are other doctors who say to do whatever works the best to control pain.
It isn't necessary to split your dose. When the total body pain woke me up and it was so severe that I couldn't go back to sleep, that was when I split my dose.
I also experienced pain and stiffness in my hands without too much body pain anywhere else. The hand pain didn't wake me up so much. It was more like I was on the fringe of being asleep and being awake. I would flex my hand and make note of how they felt while still being partially asleep. To a certain degree I varied my Prednisone dose that I took a 8 a.m. by +/- 1 mg depending how stiff and sore my hands were.
I didn't have any tapering scheme that was predetermined. My Prednisone dose varied by how I felt. It took me 12 years before I could paper off Prednisone. I had many relapses along the way that were confirmed by elevated inflammation markers.