Sorry for my very long post earlier. Seeing my rheumatologist on Thursday for my monthly.
I went back up to 15mg of prednisone (from 12.5) as the symptoms were all coming back again and feel great.
I get the idea is to take as little as possible. Methotrexate made my face feel like I was on Novacaine and overall I felt awful. Was also getting UTI symptoms 3 days after taking it.

So what's the goal (other than eliminate the symptoms):
Start on one of the new IL 6 drugs?
Or do I stay on prednisone for a few months and try to taper more slowly?

Admittedly I’m not excited about trying something else unless I hear this is a game changer. But I know prednisone has it's own issues.