Hello @dudeofdad, Welcome to Connect. I'm glad you found this discussion and shared your experience. It's good to hear you are doing well on tapering off of prednisone slow and easy. My first occurrence took 3 and half years to taper off of prednisone and the last six months I went back and forth between 1 mg and 1/2 mg until I was finally able to stop taking it without having the pain and stiffness return.

I kept a daily dosage and pain level log for both of my occurrences of PMR and it really helped me taper off of prednisone the second time around with PMR which was 6 years after it went into remission from the first occurrence. Are you keeping a daily log of your dosage and pain level?