Hello @denise23, Welcome to Connect. You will notice that we moved your post into an existing discussion on the same topic here - PMR and exercise: What helps you?: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-and-exercise/ so that you could connect with @jcaffrey47, @tsc, @cgent, @zaa and others.

The key thing I've learned from my two occurrences of PMR is that exercise is important and I feel better when I get 30 to 60 minutes a day of exercise in but I also have to make sure I don't overdo it. Even though my PMR is in remission, if I do too much exercise, my body lets me know the next day. I have Teeter FreeStep exercise bike that I try to use for 30 to 60 minutes a day along as part of my exercise routine.

The Arthritis-Health site has some good strategies for copying with PMR here: https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/3-strategies-coping-polymyalgia-rheumatica-pmr

You might also want to keep a daily pain log along with how much prednisone you took that day. I never tapered when it was time unless my pain level was a 1 or 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. Do you keep a daily pain log?

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