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Try to keep your taper to not more than 20% each increment. 50 to 40 was OK….40 to 20 is 50%. The time between each taper should be up to You and your symptoms. It’s going to take some time. Your adrenals need to “ wake up” slowly. ….good luck

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jabrown0407 | @jabrown0407 | May 2 7:20am

@rhb80 I believe tapering from high doses to a lower dose has not influence on your adrenals. Your adrenals are left sleeping until you get below 10mg dose and for me it is 5mg. The important part of tapering is to be pain free before starting the next step down. Talk with you provider about modifications to the taper plan based on your pain. If they have treated PMR patients prior to ou they will understand that every patient is different when it comes to tapering.

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