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Has anyone tried anti-depressant medication for neuropathic pain?
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How long were you on 20 mg of prednisone? Having been on 15 mg for I believe 8 wks, then 7 mg (can't recall for how long) but now tapering off every 30 days from 4 mg to 3 and mid-Dec will be 2 mg. I am not sure I want to continue stopping the 3 mg cuz I do have pain around my shoulders and joints. It's hard for me to judge just how much I have. I do admit that taking the 15 mg was much better for me. The side effect was that my skin seemed so think and I would slightly knock my leg and I would have a bleed there, even on my arms. It is scary to take a new med and have this happen. I take 0.12 mg of hydrochloride and fosomax one day a week (70 mg) and calcium for my bones but I have always shyed away from taking pills unless absolutely necessary.
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I think the first time in 2007 I started at 20mg for two weeks and then down to 15 for two weeks. After that I started tapering down by 2.5 every two weeks until I started having too much pain and I slowed the taper to 1 mg every two weeks or a month if I was struggling with pain. It took 3-1/2 years to taper completely off my first time. Then 6 years after that the PMR returned but I had made some lifestyle changes with more exercise and eating healthier with less sugar and inflammatory foods and was able to taper off in 1-1/2 years.
What helped me was keeping a daily pain and dosage log. If my pain was more than a 2 on my scale, I didn't taper and would sometimes bump my dose up for a week by half of what it was the previous time so I wasn't going all the way back to the previous dose and would still be down a little in dosage.