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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 27 8:38am | Replies (1879)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for your response. To answer your questions, no my primary doctor has not put me on a tapering schedule yet. I just went on the Prednisone this last Saturday morning. Very new at this. I have another appointment with the doctor on the 27th of May. I am concerned because my A1C is already elevated and I am considered pre-diabetic, . I do not want the Prednisone to make it worse. This is very frustrating, but it has helped with the pain and that I am grateful for that. I already cleaned up my diet about 3 months ago because of the A1C , low carb , lotts of veggies and then I get PMR. This is baffling.
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@emma321, One thing I think might really help since you just started is to keep a daily pain log rating your pain when you wake up in the morning between 1 and 10 with 10 being the worst along with your daily dose amount of prednisone. This helps when you start tapering. It's good to hear you have the diet on the right path. That was what really helped my second time around with PMR and allowed me to taper off in 1-1/2 years vs the 3-1/2 years the first time around with PMR. Everyone is different but you just have to listen to your body and take the tapering slowly.
Another discussion you might be interested in since you mentioned low carb and lots of veggies is the Low-carb healthy fat living. Intermittent fasting. What’s your why? discussion here - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/low-carb-healthy-fat-living-intermittent-fasting-whats-your-why/