@nm11643

I would have said my prednisone side effects were "minimal" during my heyday of taking prednisone. When I'm confronted with a long list of medical complications during my many years of taking Prednisone it was harder for me to deny side effects because my medical history was an extensive list of otherwise unexplained events.

I had a tendon that ruptured "spontaneously" which doctors speculated might have been caused by prednisone. Same for an "unprovoked" pulmonary embolism. All the infections were simply treated with antibiotics and the my rheumatologist only said my "immune system was being suppressed." However, Prednisone was supposed to suppress my immune system so that wasn't a side effect.

Then there were hormone "imbalances" and metabolic "abnormalities" which weren't even revealed to me until I was referred to an endocrinologist for adrenal insufficiency. That was when an endocrinologist said to some degree adrenal insufficiency and a low cortisol level was "inevitable" when a person takes Prednisone for as long as I did.

I learned more about the side effects of prednisone after I tapered off Prednisone and not during the time I was taking Prednisone. When it came to Prednisone withdrawal symptoms when I tried to taper off Prednisone ... it was no wonder I couldn't taper off Prednisone easily. I just called that pain a PMR flare even though the pain wasn't like my original PMR symptoms.

@nm11643 hi. Did your doctor tell you that your PMR was triggered by COVID-19 booster shots? How many have you had (total) and when was your last booster? And, did you get COVID-19, sick from the virus?