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Hi @dengland, Your description of your PMR journey sounds similar to mine but you were a...
impressed that you have been able to taper ... your prednisone dose because I am still ... ridiculous and inflammatory markers go off
Posted: Nov 17, 2024
I wrote my symptoms on Google and came back with PMR. I could not even remove...
I could not even remove the covers off ... to be more effective than ordinary prednisone ... have no PMR symptoms since my 1st taper
Posted: Jan 10 10:41am
"Thank god I have not had a repeat of that—I feel for you, I really do—it...
I frequently took 60 mg of prednisone ... and tapered off prednisone in a month ... Our routine was to take 60 mg of prednisone ... regularly said I was skilled with prednisone ... tapers.
I want to know if the symptoms I’m having when I try to decrease the prednisone...
having when I try to decrease the prednisone ... way, the treatment is taking 5 mg of prednisone ... that, but did agree to give me the tapper ... I just want off of this what I now call
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Dec 31, 2024
Actemra is helping me to taper off of prednisone at a faster rate. I started Actemra...
Actemra is helping me to taper off of ... prednisone at a faster rate. ... So far the taper has gone well. ... 3 types determines if they can get off ... prednisone by taking Actemra.
Posted: Dec 30, 2024
Prednisone works great to relieve the pain but doesn't help that much to prevent the damage....
Prednisone works great to relieve the ... Then Prednisone was the bane of my existence ... when I could never taper off Prednisone ... ------ Fortunately, I finally got off ... Prednisone 15 years after the onset
Discussion: Sciatic problems
Posted: Dec 28, 2024
completely support you in May 2022 I was started on 20mg prednisone GP said I would...
in May 2022 I was started on 20mg prednisone ... would be affected and gave me the tapering ... stopping, it took mje 2 years to get off ... it the taper made me so ill that each ... had to endure the symptoms and get off
Posted: Dec 21, 2024
I had dizzy spells coming off Prednisone when a biologic was added to see if it...
I had dizzy spells coming off Prednisone ... was added to see if it would help me taper ... off prednisone more easily. ... When we taper our Prednisone dose everything ... When we try to taper off Prednisone
It appears to be fairly common for glucose levels to increase while on prednisone. Whether this...
glucose levels to increase while on prednisone ... As I have tapered off prednisone (now ... occasions while on higher doses of prednisone
I personally don't think Actemra will work if Kevzara didn't work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't...
They said prednisone was the "only ... resort" and because I was unable to taper ... off prednisone.
Discussion: Start Actemra?
Posted: Nov 27, 2024
73 year old woman who started with PMR just about 1 year ago, worst pain I...
Reading all of your stories about tapering ... pain sx and decisions about getting off ... prednisone totally or increasing, I ... I want to get off steroids, tired of
Posted: Nov 22, 2024
This isn't a recommendation of anyone in particular but this place has several rheumatologists to choose...
a very long time and you can't taper ... off Prednisone, a rheumatologist at ... novel therapy, it took me a year to taper ... off Prednisone. ... use but currently off prednisone for
Posted: Nov 10, 2024
I was on Losartin (Cozaar) and Hydrochlorothiazide (Hydrodiurel) also. My calcium channel blocker was Amlodipine (Norvasc)....
couple of days followed by a fast taper ... Actemra, Then it took a year for me to taper ... off prednisone. ... have been stopped when I was able to taper ... off Prednisone.
Hello All -- the official publication of the ACR is the "Rheumatologist" and has very recent...
to me on page two is this rapid taper ... don’t think of PMR as requiring high prednisone ... treated with at least 15 milligrams of prednisone ... off steroids within a year, a meta-analysis ... well my current trajectory is zero Prednsone
Hi, Robin. I had an onset of PMR last December and like you was very concerned...
concerned about the long term effects of prednisone ... low-dose, relatively short term course of prednisone ... daily about three weeks ago and I’m tapering ... every two weeks planning to be off ... forum have had such struggles with prednisone
Hello @lsm47 I was thinking about your post today while in the pool at the JCC....
I too had alarm bells go off when bilateral ... and wrists when I was at about 5 mg Prednisone ... over the last several months I have tapered ... to zero Prednisone and swimming and
I forgot to mention that the first time my PMR was active it took me 3...
active it took me 3 and half years to taper ... off of prednisone and the last six ... and forth between 1 mg and 1/2 mg prednisone
Posted: Oct 20, 2024