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Are There Guidelines for Prednisone Tapers
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 18 hours ago | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
I am at 10mg after 1 month, down from 15mg. I know I will have to slow down and when ready I might like to try tapering in .5mg steps. I have called lots of pharmacies and 1mg is all that is commercially available. Even the compounding pharmacy I called said they can’t make it. How have people reporting used .5mg?
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Prednisone is scored to split easily and because it's scored and manufactured to be splittable, the meds are evenly distributed throughout the pill as opposed to unscored pills. Unscored pills when split do not guarantee an equal split of the actual meds.
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@emct there is a line on the 1mg pills (same on all milligrams) that you can break in half… I used what little finger nail I have on thumb to break in half and when struggled with that used butter knife placing little pressure until pill broke in two. They do sell a device to cut pills but never bothered to buy one.