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Medications for Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
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Has anyone remissions become active again? My sed rate and crp are high again? Currently on 7 mg of predizone .
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@654321 - put the little @ symbol and the persons identification. All of us will see your posting. I have read that it can become active again. How long have you been on Prednisone? I had to go back to 20 mg during my taper. I was at 17.5 mg. I was away so I don’t know what my Sed Rate was at the time. Usually they take you back up to the level where you did not have symptoms. They took me back to 20 mg for a few weeks and then I started down again. How high is your Sed rate? How long have you had Temoral Arteritis?
@MLeeB - Do you have GCA or are you taking Prednisone for another condition?
I have GCA.
I have answered several of these sorry . I have had t a for around five years I think . It went into remission and after moving from ky to Texas it is back. My crp is what I can t get down . Sed rate had gone doen but is now in the 40 s crp
Is 11.6 I get blood work every four weeks
@654321 - How much Prednisone are you taking now.
@MLeeB - I like what you call the Prednisone. I am at 5mg and the swelling in my face is going down but still have my extra 12 lbs. I can’t wait to get off of this drug. I must say it sure helped while raking our 5 acres after Erma. We have 180 oak trees and just finished cleaning up last week. Now we are back in hurricane season. The next one might kill me from all of the clean up.
7mg daily
@654321 - When I was diagnosed with GCA my Sed Rate was 38 and they started me on 60 mg of Prednisone. That seems to be a low amount but if it works that is great. I hope you can get your numbers down.
@ DearTinkerbell, what kind of a doctor treats temperal arteritis? Perhaps a neurologist? Peach414144
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Yes, it is a bouncing ball. You think everything is going well. Blood markers are down, you feel well and than it starts again. What I have found out is to get the markers down and feel better I did not have to go on such a high dose of prednisone as I did in the beginning. Plus able to reduce the prednisone at a faster rate. For me this has happened a number of times in my 2.5 years of being on the devils drug.