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.