What I meant by the pain setting in is when my doctor had me go from 15mg to 12.5.after two weeks. It only took three days to put me back almost two weeks pain-wise.
As long as I stay on a level of prednisone daily, I have very little, if any, pmr pain. That's why I'm not rushing the taper.
I don't know that there is a remission per se but waking up the adrenal glands and them taking over once one tapers off the meds. I undrrstand to go slowly and slower once you're in the single digits. Pain is the signal that you dropped too low in milligrams. Does your doctor have you on a schedule?
Once I'm down to 10, I'll slow the roll.
I just went from 12.5 for six or so weeks (because of rx delay) to 11.25 (same reason). I got notice today that there's another rx called in but I'll call maybe tomorrow, I'm just tired of dealing with the stress of it.