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PMR flare at a drop from 8 to 7 mg of prednisone?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Dec 2, 2023 | Replies (44)Comment receiving replies
I tend to stall out at 7.5 mg every time. I’m back at 8.5 mg at the moment
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I was down to 7 and had to back up to 8,
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At or about the 7 mg dose of prednisone was a tricky dose for me. That prednisone dose trips up an amazing number of people. I would start to get "yellow flags" from my body at 10 mg warning me to slow down. If I persisted with lowering my dose, the yellow flags turned to "red flags" that demanded that I stop tapering.
When I got to 7 mg, the pain would be so bad it forced me to retreat. I usually went back to 10 or 15 mg of prednisone. It didn't seem to matter if I tapered slowly or quickly back to 7 mg because the same thing happened. I don't even think it was a flare of PMR because the pain was never the same as my original PMR symptoms.