I have had PMR off and on 30 years with an increase in prednisone (P) over that time. I was put on hydroxycholoquine (H) to reduce the P. H has worked so well that I have reduced P from 10 to 4 with no problem. Since I have had PMR for 30 years and reduce P from 10 mg to 0 maybe 15 times, but never so easily. I now think I am in remission of PMR and want to reduce P and H as fast as possible to see if I am in remission and to get off these drugs, especially H since it interferes with my sleep and gives me weird dreams. Since we all have arthritis, I am now have arthritic pain but not PMR. That is some isolated joint pain and morning stiffnesss. What are members of this blog doing for arthritic pain after being off PMR medications? I was on low dose P (2.5 mg per day) and it work well for all my pain.