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Anyone had blotchy, itchy skin from PMR or from Kevzara?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 1 8:34am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
@carolweso91
It’s best not to go cold turkey from Prednisone. My instructions were to taper.
Kevzara takes up to 3 months to kick in.
I was at 8mg, I think, when I started Kevzara, and by the time I was at the 3 month mark for Kevzara and it had fully kicked in, I also had tapered off of prednisone.
You want off prednisone so much, but you will unfortunately pay the price for rushing it, especially since Kevzara is not instant gratification.
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@tweetypie13
Thank you for that information.
I'm at 3mg now (for only 2 days though, so far) and hoping I can stay symptom free. Perhaps now would be when I should be starting Kevzara...in conjunction with my taper-down of prednisone. I'm pretty sure my rheumatologist would be open to that. (This flare up of PMR has caused more side effects from prednisone...memory loss and irritably/anger being the worst of them. Hope these aren't side effects of Kevzara, also!)
Have you experienced side effects on Kevzara? If yes, what are they?
Thanks.