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Yes. I think it is the experience that counts and we are losing a lot of experience in the medical field as people retire.
In my case, it came not only below the line but way below the line... yet both of my doctors had been working in the field for decades. My first deferred to the rheumatologist, who said that if wasn't PMR, we'd know it if the prednisone didn't work. I was put on a one-month pack; it started high and then decreased over the next 20 or 30 days. Then I was done and had no more trouble with it for 5 years. This time my test results had moved up and the one-month pack didn't work. So I'm working on establishing a decreasing prednisone dose now, but all is manageable.