@chzuck @rashida
What took me months to realize is PMR doesn't come back, it never left. Tapering Prednisone issues seem to depend on the dosage and importantly the length of time on P. It has it's own issues and tapering should look to how inhibited the adrenal glands have gotten. PMR (seems from all these comments) might burn itself out after 2 or so years. If tapering P gives you NO issues, then at some low P dosage, it will no longer mask the PMR pain. PMR that had never left. I am no doc and reading comments here has helped me tremendously. @dadcue has really taken time to explain things how he has experienced this. Once I read all and all other, comments, I realized whey tapering had gone with ZERO issues, then the pain came back. My P dosage was too low to mask the pain. Hope this helps.