My ophthalmologist said something similar when he prescribed a 100 mg dose of prednisone for uveitis. He said he wanted to go for the "knock-out" punch because the lower doses weren't working. I tapered off prednisone quickly after the knock-out punch. I was happy the 100 mg worked. My ophthalmologist thought I was "too happy" about the potential for vision loss and wanted me to decrease my dose as quickly as possible. He said I was skilled with prednisone tapers because I tapered off prednisone in a month.

I wasn't so skilled after PMR was diagnosed. It took me more than 12 years to taper off prednisone when I took it for PMR.