Hi @bruce1951vet, It took me 3 and half years to taper off of prednisone my first time with PMR. I started at 20mg dose and didn't taper as fast as you have been doing. My second time with PMR six years after it went into remission, I started at the same 20mg dose but was able to taper off in 1 and half years. It is different for each of us but what I believe helped me get off quicker was making a few lifestyle changes, especially eating healthier, trying to eliminate most sugar and inflammatory foods along with some mild to moderate exercise daily.

Another thing that helped was keeping a daily log of my pain level when I woke up and my dose of prednisone for that day. That allowed me to work a little closer with my rheumatologist on a tapering plan. When it was time on my tapering plan to taper down, I didn't taper down if my pain level was more than a 2 on my scale of 0 to 10. If the pain flared, I sometimes increased my prednisone dose to half of the previous taper to see if that made the pain disappear.

Do you keep a daily log?