Just an fyi to start... I started on methlprednisolone in early December. As I wrote above, I just happened to have the Methypred in the house. After seeing the Rheumatologist she put me on regular prednisone which I started to use. My eperience with the Methypted was a lot more effetive than the regular prdnisone and I liked that it did not have to use my liver to become effective like regular prednisone. At that time I asked my Rheumy to give me a script for the Methylprednisolone. Since mid December when I started Methylpred at 20mg/day, I am now down to 5mg/day as of May 20th. I never had any bad experiene decreaseing my dose. My last decrease to 5mg was just 2 weeks ago. For thr first time I felt some very slight PMR feelings in my shoulders and neck which would disappear as I got moving in the AM. Now it is 10 days that I am on 5mg and I have no PMR symptoms. I have never had a flare up.
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Just an fyi to start... I started on methlprednisolone in early December. As I wrote above, I just happened to have the Methypred in the house. After seeing the Rheumatologist she put me on regular prednisone which I started to use. My eperience with the Methypted was a lot more effetive than the regular prdnisone and I liked that it did not have to use my liver to become effective like regular prednisone. At that time I asked my Rheumy to give me a script for the Methylprednisolone. Since mid December when I started Methylpred at 20mg/day, I am now down to 5mg/day as of May 20th. I never had any bad experiene decreaseing my dose. My last decrease to 5mg was just 2 weeks ago. For thr first time I felt some very slight PMR feelings in my shoulders and neck which would disappear as I got moving in the AM. Now it is 10 days that I am on 5mg and I have no PMR symptoms. I have never had a flare up.
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