@vellen, My rheumatologist gave me tapering suggestions but never told me specific amounts or times to drop to a lower dose of prednisone. Instead he had me keep a daily log of my pain level when I got up in the morning and the dose that I was taking each day. Then he said to only taper down if my pain level was acceptable to me when I got up in the morning. For me that was a 1 or 2 on a scale of 0 to 10. If my pain level was higher than 2 I would bump my dosage up half of the previous amount that I dropped on the last taper to see if the pain went down the next day. When I got to 1 mg, it took me six months of going back and forth between 1 mg and 1/2 mg before I could finally stop taking prednisone and wake up with pain less than a 2.