@suetex, you mentioned you flared a couple of months ago but were doing OK prior to that. When my PMR was active the first few time tapering down I went from 20 to 15 for a month and tried to go down again but the PMR pain came back so I bumped it up half of what I took it down and the PMR pain was gone again at 17.5 mg. From then on I tapered slowly, never more than 1 to 2.5 mg. At the time I was tapering bi-weekly but as I got further along I changed to a weekly taper. My Rheumatologist told me that I should taper based on how I felt and what I could tolerate. I kept a daily pain log along with how much prednisone I took that morning. If my pain was more than a 2 on my own scale of 1 to 10 highest pain, I stayed at the same dose for another few days to see if I could taper down. If it was higher, I bumped my dosage up a half of the previous taper to see if I could still keep it less than the previous dosage.