I am not. I am still seeing my primary care physician who diagnosed it last fall.

I began with 13 mg daily of Prednisone, reduced it 1 mg a month, am presently down to 3 mg.

All was going well until I got pain in the Achilles tendon of the right foot and a week later the same thing in the left foot. The primary care physician diagnosed it as bilateral Achilles tendonitis, but I am skeptical. What's the chance of getting AT in both feet within a week? The only exercise I do that involves my legs is use of a rowing machine and that puts about zero stress on the AT. My physical therapist recalled during her training being told that Prednisone could be really hard on the tendons.

Suspecting that the onset of the AT was a result of the dropping of the Pred. dosage, I called the primary care physician and asked if I could up it back to 10 mg and see what happened and he blessed that.

Ten days later, absolutely no improvement...and that's when the PT gal made her observation. Since dropping the dosage to 3mg about a week ago, I am seeing some modest improvement in the AT discomfort.

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