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Yes, the usual taper is much slower and in smaller increments. A drop of 2.5mg in...
Yes, the usual taper is much slower ... reason the doctor told you to drop the prednisone ... And most people start on 15mg - 25mg prednisone ... If it is, the prednisone is too low
Posted: Sep 7, 2024
"I'm definitely going to simplify things" That's how I approached my prednisone taper. My doctors could...
That's how I approached my prednisone ... taper. ... never understand those complicated tapering ... They understood a slow taper but they ... mg in 4 weeks my doctor said I was tapering
Posted: Sep 3, 2024
I was recently diagnosed with CNS DLBCL and am currently being treated at Mayo for this....
had already been encouraging me to taper ... I started very slowly tapering off the ... prednisone over the next months but ... taper in mid October. ... Without the daily prednisone, I started
I’m ready to take the chance. I’ve been on between 10&20 mgs of prednisone for the...
ve been on between 10&20 mgs of prednisone ... for the better part of a year but tapered
Discussion: CellCept
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Sep 3, 2024
For what it's worth my neurologist is Dr. Alexander at Scripps here in San Diego. He's...
When Jim was tapered off the prednisone ... are generally fewer than staying on Prednisone ... should be receiving, if he's been tapered ... off Prednisone completely. ... This is not ideal, as he will have to taper
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Aug 28, 2024
My husband spent 54 days in MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and was diagnosed with...
seconds They started him on 1000 mg of prednisone ... a day for 7 days then started tapering ... He had been completly off of predinsone
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Aug 26, 2024
"Pain is a symptom, not a disease, and all pain is not PMR pain." Isn't that...
Pain is also a symptom of tapering off ... prednisone which makes it even harder ... to taper off prednisone.
Posted: Aug 21, 2024
@tobeybaby, I've had PMR twice and was able to taper off of prednisone both time without...
#39;ve had PMR twice and was able to taper ... off of prednisone both time without ... I was again started on 20 mg prednisone ... and was able to taper off of prednisone ... I think it was easier tapering off the
@susanew, My first time with PMR it took 3 and half years to taper off of...
with PMR it took 3 and half years to taper ... off of prednisone. ... discussions and 1700+ comments on the tapering ... off of prednisone while you wait for ... search=Tapering%20off%20of%20Prednisone
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
The Prednisone tapering experience seems to be highly variable. I had quite severe disease symptoms but...
The Prednisone tapering experience seems ... I responded to Prednisone but initial ... tapering was very difficult with lots ... Is this what successful tapering looks
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
this would be just my take on it./ IL-6 has been found to be active in...
inflammatory response while trying to taper ... prednisone. ... Prednisone also fights inflammation ... Your pain may all be prednisone related ... Prednisone is the only one that is controlling
Posted: Aug 12, 2024
My doc says “it happens”. I had a lower left Lobectomy in May of 2023. To...
My rheumatologist gave me prednisone ... But as i tapered down from 30mg of Prednisone ... Sadly one cant stay on Prednisone for
Support Group: Lung Cancer
Posted: Aug 11, 2024
I've been on Kevzara for 3 months now so thought I would offer a report. Methotrexate...
I was at 6 mg prednisone and felt like ... stayed on the Kev for 6 weeks without tapering ... I then tapered down to 5 mg pred at ... months and in the meantime I am to try tapering ... the prednisone .5 mg/month.
My experience was the same. Tapering off Prednisone is uncomfortable and painful even when PMR isn't...
Tapering off Prednisone is uncomfortable ... It is very easy to mistake Prednisone ... dose so tapering gets slower and slower ... It took me almost a year to taper from ... said I shouldn't even attempt to taper
Posted: Aug 8, 2024