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Reducing predisone side effects
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@jabrown0407
"Why, once you are down to 2mg heading for 1mg, would you become concerned with tapering taking longer?"
Isn't going from 2 to 1mg a 50% drop? The tapering process invokes aches, pains and possibly stirs up my Meniere's. And I certainly don't want to be in bed throwing up - which is what Meniere's can do to me. These are the problems I had getting from 3 to 2mg. I was at 3mg for months, took several weeks to get to 2mg. Been at 2 mg for a few weeks. Maybe I should stay at 2 mg longer. My PCP said to stay at 2mg til I see him in August. Maybe that's what I should do. Hot, humid weather is here now and that in itself will be unpleasant. I'm talking myself into staying at 2mg. Like everyone here, I just would like to be eliminating
prednisone from my diet.
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@pmrsuzie
I don't know if it helps, but I had your same concerns. Our Mentor here gave a little bit of advice from his Doctor, so on the last 2 mg down, I did a so-called sound-check on my body. What hurts, how bad is it, is it lasting more than a few days. I would get nervous as well. For me, the consensus that I read into was a very, very slow taper at the last two mgs. I did quarter mgs steps and would pay attention to the pain levels as I got down to 0. I don't know if that helps, but it worked for me. I completely get your concerns. So far, so good, thankfully.