Good morning all - @annemarie74 @barracudacool Can you tell me if you would describe the pain/stiffness in your recent flare ups as EXACTLY the way you experienced PMR at the initial onset ?
I am questioning what is going on with me:

I was just beginning to taper from 7 to 6 mg and have had three 3 non-consecutive days of waking up with sore arms /biceps - I have been doing pilates again have kept up with PT exercises in the pool. So i now can't tell if this is PMR related or not !
But i feel the most telltale observation is that i don't WANT to lift my arms up - i can't put my hair in a ponytail ( and believe my husband cannot put my hair in a barrette - it's pretty funny ! )
In addition , i had blood work done in anticipation of needing that data to help figure this out - my CRP and ESR are currently normal.
Given what others have described in this conversation and elsewhere, I will increase my evening dose and revert back to 8mg total for the weekend and get a message out to my Rheumatologist.
SO ANNOYING ! But anyway - speaking of tapering -- I will attach a nice short review tha mentions a "typical" schedule :
" A typical regimen is reduction by 2.5 mg prednisolone every 2–4 weeks, until reaching 10 mg daily, and then by 1 mg per month until cessation or until symptoms flare. Some patients need a slower reduction of 0.5 mg per month. Tapering of glucocorticoid dose should be guided by clinical symptoms, not by inflammatory markers; thus recording relevant patient-reported outcomes12 "