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@stonewheel glad your keeping moving. I still go to the gym every morning. Same workout. Trying to hold my strength and form the best I can. I will be 74 in June. I started testosterone about 2 years ago and that has helped my overall physical health. My wife passed 1 year ago after 51yrs of marriage. That has been huge. Exercise has kept my sanity. In my PMR journey I found that 10mg was my comfort spot. I tried about once a month to move lower and could not. At 5 months I started to taper and had no issues. I tapered off over the next month rather quickly. It took about 6 months to feel better. Fatigue was my worse thing. Thats when I started the testosterone. At about 9-10 months I had what I thought was the start of PMR again. I took a 5 day pack of prednisone and it was gone. I had another about 3 months later and did the same. That was in 2022. I have not had a flare again. I take a daily BP pill now and I have genetic cholesterol issues. I take a twice monthly injection of repatha. Just found out I need a hip replacement. Dr credits the fact that its not crippling pain to the fact I keep it moving every day. A lot has happened since I turned 68. I hope to slow the train down. Keep up the good work.
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@tuckerp Hi. Thanks for your reply. I’m touched to hear your loss. I hope you had family help.
“ At 5 months I started to taper and had no issues. I tapered off over the next month rather quickly. It took about 6 months to feel better. Fatigue was my worse thing.”
Do I understand correctly that after 5 months at 10mg, you went from 10mg prednisone to 0mg in one month? If so, your adrenals responded quickly. If so, perhaps it was the exercise? My personal thoughts are that exercise circulates rejuvenated blood faster to our tissues, that increases and speeds up available resources for cells to repair and systems to get back to normal. Perhaps maintaining exercise, more good blood circulating faster, the adrenals normalized sooner? I know we’re all different, I’m just trying to share my reasoning for exercise and at the same time be aware of what to expect. I appreciate the feedback. I hope you don’t have any more flares. Testosterone added is something that I had not thought of.