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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 27 8:38am | Replies (1879)
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@scpartain

Yes, 10 mg. per day. It helps but I am still having intense pain in the mornings for several hours. Later in the day things are almost normal.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | May 9, 2021

@scpartain - Can you discuss increasing the dosage with your doctor/rheumatologist? From what I've read and my experience with the 2 occurrences of PMR, the standard starting dose of prednisone for PMR is 20 mg. At 20 mg I had zero pain fairly quickly after taking the prednisone. Other members may want to weigh in with their experience also. The pain starts coming back when you start tapering off the drug which is why it's done slowly. Also, each of us are really different when it comes to pain and tapering off of prednisone.

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