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Chronic Fatigue while tapering Prednisone for PMR

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Apr 21 9:44am | Replies (95)
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@pjnewm

I have terrible morning fatigue from arising in the morning till approximately noon at which time I begin to feel much better. Currently, I have wind down from approximately 20 mg of prednisone a day to 5 mg. I recently got down to 2 mg a day but had to bump it back up to 5 mg. When I was on 20 mg a day I did not have this morning fatigue. I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this or has thoughts about this?

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Jan 28, 2023

Welcome @pjnewm, I did not experience a lot of fatigue when I was tapering down on prednisone for my two occurrences of PMR but I believe others have. You will notice that we moved your post to an existing discussion on the same topic here:
-- Chronic Fatigue while tapering Prednisone for PMR: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/chronic-fatiguewhile-tapering-prednisone-for-pmr/,
so that you can connect with @annettetompkins, @gagapapa, @bcarr54 and others that also have experienced fatigue when tapering with prednisone.

Have you discussed it with your doctor or rheumatologist to see if maybe you are tapering down to quickly or at too large of a dose?

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