@majryan61, Some members have suggested splitting the prednisone daily dosage and taking some in the morning and some later in the day/afternoon to help with the morning stiffness. For both my occurrences of PMR I just took one dose in the morning normally between 6 and 8am before or with breakfast. I kept a daily pain log also and I was normally at 0 or 1 when I first got up in the morning and some light stretching and moving around took care of the early morning stiffness.