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Hi Cynthia @juju1, Welcome to Connect. You are not alone with not wishing PMR on anyone....
coming back when you reduce to 6 mg prednisone ... starting dose, it may be that you are tapering ... I started at 20 mg prednisone and the ... time it took me 3 and half years to taper ... off.
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Hi Cynthia, I too am newly diagnosed (May 8). Rheumatologist started me on 20 mg of...
Rheumatologist started me on 20 mg of prednisone ... upped dosage to 30mg for a week then tapered ... will want to continue the taper. ... understand the need to reduce/get off ... of prednisone with minimum issues.
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I was able to taper off my low dose of prednisone (started at 10 mg) within...
I was able to taper off my low dose ... of prednisone (started at 10 mg) within ... I have been slowly tapering off of 2
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I think infections caused flares of something although I don't think the flares were always a...
Prednisone would relieve these painful ... I tapered off prednisone in a one or ... control the pain but I never could taper ... off prednisone for 12 years after that ... A biologic allowed me to taper off prednisone
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This is very important information! Many types of autoimmune flares respond with a burst of high...
respond with a burst of high dose of prednisone ... followed by a fast taper. ... PMR doesn't mean that long term prednisone ... I would say the longer you take prednisone ... , slowly tapering off prednisone is