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How to address PMR pain while decreasing prednisone

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Nov 2 6:56pm | Replies (764)
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Dear @alissahe
Have you and your Dr. thought about combining your prednisone with Low dose Naltrexone (LDN)4.5
I believe that it's been helpful for me.
I was diagnosed with PMR eight months ago.
Was put on 20 mg of prednisone by my GP. The prednisone started taking my pain away within days to a tolerable level But I struggled with lots of side effects.
Two weeks after that my functional doctor included LDN.
After reading some articles about
Splitting prednisone I got permission to take most of my prednisone in the morning with my breakfast. Then 1 mg of prednisone at night before I went to sleep so that I could wake up without much pain and get a good sleep.
Today I'm down to 6mg of pred 5+ LDN in the am and 1 at night bf bed.
My functional doctor also said that if I had pain anywhere I could take Traumeel ( an analgesic) as needed. So far the journey has been tolerable and my moon face has slowly disappeared.
Good luck to you in your PMR journey.

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kimmgb | @kimmgb | Oct 28 4:03am

@janielou56
Look into taking a biologic drug. I am on Actemera and was able to reduce my prednisone to 1mg. There are other drugs as well. Good luck with reducing. The key is very small reductions, 1/2 a mg every 4-6 weeks. Worked for mev

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