Hi, interesting that you mention keeping a pain and dose log. I started doing this from day 1 of the Prednisone journey. It has helped me to understand the diet, stress, dose, pain connections and i found producing a graphic representation in excel of the dose changes and duration during tapering was also enlightening. This was how i realized that dose changes of more than 2mg could result in withdrawal symptoms for me, that splitting the dose and having a small amount in the afternoon meant a better nights sleep and less morning stiffness. I also realised that red meat definitely caused more pain, that 3 months of the strict vegan diet wasnt causing less pain and that days where i was stressed from looking after triplet 4yr olds resulted in a flare of pain symptoms !!!