Upon my diagnosis, I was initially prescribed 20 mg daily, to taper to 15 mg a week later. That did not work, but since then, my rheumatologist had me split my daily dosage. At that point, he got me to 30 mg daily, 20 mg in morning, 10 mg at night, and held me there for either 4 weeks or a month. Then I tapered by 5 mg daily every 2 weeks until I got below 20 mg, then 2.5 mg daily every 2 weeks until I got to 10 mg, then 1 mg daily every 2 weeks until I get to 0 (hopefully mid February; I'm current down to 3 mg daily). Maybe splitting your dosage may help.