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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Feb 28 5:49am | Replies (313)
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Hello again, just checking to give an update and see how others are going. Last time I spoke, I was about to reduce my 20mg dose of prednisone down to 17.5. I did that with success for a week, so ventured on to reduce to 15mg. I have now been on that since New Year’s Day. I am feeling well and pain free. I have my first rheumatologist appointment on Thursday 10th Jan, and she will tell me how to progress. I am tempted to reduce again tomorrow to 12.5mgs, as it has been a week. No bad effects, I am feeling good. What do you think about my plan?
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Hi @jules11, I'm glad to hear the tapering off of prednisone is going well. I'm not a doctor and have no medical training but you are doing exactly what I did. Sometimes I was successful and sometimes not so much. Each of us are a little different when it comes to tapering off of prednisone, so if you can go down another 2.5 mg after a week of no pain I would say go for it. Worse case is you will need to bump it up a little. The only caution I would have is to not get to excited about getting off prednisone too quickly. Your body will tell you when it's too much too quick. We just have to listen closely ☺
Hope you have a pain free day!