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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 31 6:46pm | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
@ellen45 you cannot just stop taking prednisone. You must taper it off over many weeks.. if you don’t, you will have a lot of fatigue. I’m in an ancan.org Advanced prostate cancer meeting right now and they are talking about exactly that tapering it off over a long period of time
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@jeffmarc Do you have a link to the appropriate tapering schedule for prednisone? My husband took it for over three years with Zytiga. Since stopping Zytiga when it stopped working, he has gone down to 5 mg of prednisone per day. Then he was told by the local medical oncologist to go down to 5 mg every other day. He is so exhausted and weak and has other problems that make me suspect prednisone withdrawal. I don't think the doctor is well informed on prednisone tapering. If you could point me to some resources, I would really appreciate it.