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@ellegeee

Hi. It’s so nice to hear a more positive story! If your symptoms just started in February, it seems like you’re making very fast progress without too many setbacks. My symptoms started in March and my Rheumy initially gave me the one week tapering dose pack and since that worked immediately, she then put me on 6 mg of Methylprednisolone rather than Prednisone. I just tapered to 5 mg yesterday and so far so good. My labs were never elevated and I did not have morning pain, but I had all the other PMR symptoms which were alleviated by the steroid. I also have ongoing back issues (stenosis, etc). The steroid masked that pain, but with the lower dose, I’m already having periods of back pain. ‘Hope you continue to taper easily!

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Can you please explain what symptoms you were having and if they lasted all day? You mentioned you did not have "morning pain". Do you mean that you didn't have limited movement such as trouble getting out of bed, raising your arms above your head? Did your Dr ever suspect fibromyalgia instead of PMR?