Has anyone tried anti-depressant medication for neuropathic pain?

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.

Thank you so much for this information. It does help a lot to make decisions about my own dosage, more likely, adding as the PMR becomes more painful, especially when I get up in the mornings. 3 mg have been what I've been taking for a few weeks, from4 mg. I think I will let my rheumatologist know and see what he thinks about going backwards and taking more prednisone. What changes have you made in your diet that you think helped you. The doc told me that taking prednisone puts weight on you - I seemed more hungry with the higher doses.

I am using gabapentin for pain. I hate to use meds, but this helps a lot.