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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Feb 28 5:49am | Replies (313)
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Mimosa, what type pain do you have? It sounds like you’ll be tapering for a LONG time! I tapered off may 25th and my pain is unbearable. Wonder how long this will last? I’m hoping to rebuild my adrenal gland back up but doesn’t look promising.
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July 23,To Judy Nebrig from Mimosa.
My pain is now mostly in the rump muscles area, especially bad when I just set. Also a mild pain when walking. I know that I need to walk or exercise more, but in this intence heat I tire so quickly.
In the begining, I had insomnia also.---Make yourself a cup of camomille tea (with a wee bit of honey) about an hour before bedtime. An old French custom. Should help insomnia and headaches.
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Hi Judy @jnebrig, You mentioned you tapered off prednisone on May 25th and your pain is unbearable. The goal of tapering off is do to it slowly and only taper down if the pain is under control (maybe 1 or 2 on scale of 1 to 10). If you just stop taking it because you were told to be off in x number of weeks, I would have a long discussion with your rheumatologist or doctor. Everyone is different when it comes to pain scales and tapering off. My first time took 3-1/2 years to taper off and the second time a year and half.