Hi, I'm also in the process of tapering off prednisone and found that I need to go more slowly than my doctor initially recommended. I was on 15 mg and tried to go down to 10 in one step but within 24 hours I was in a lot of pain. So I went back up to 15 and have tapered back down to 10 by first going to 12.5 for a week, and then even cut my pills up so I was at approx 11 mg for a week before getting to 10, without feeling any increase in pain.