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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Feb 28 5:49am | Replies (313)
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@jules11 I also get disconnected a bit through the holidays with all that is going on with family and friends and trying to stay on top of it. For me it's probably due to my age (☺ older than dirt). Good luck with the tapering. One of the things that has helped me was to live with a little pain during the taper and to not jump back up to the previous dosage if I wasn't absolutely pain free. I think it got harder for me when I got between 10 mg and 5 mg. I went to using 1 mg pills so I could go down by one when necessary. I also got good at splitting the 1 mg pill when I had trouble going between 1 mg and off.
Good luck! Hopefully your PMR will go into remission sooner than later.
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John, I went even a step beyond what you did: When I was comfortable with the daily dosage of half 1mg tablets, I began to skip 1 day,
then 2 days, 3 days...... by spreading out I eventually phased it out completely. I add that in my history, I was also dealing with asthma symptoms that were triggered by the dose reductions thus my creativity.
@jules11, the every other day was suggested by my PCP when I was struggling with my taper. I had been taking 10 mg for 5-6 years for my organ transplant and this worked for me, but took me a while to do it.
I am thinking of you.