Managed to VERY SLOWLY get off prednisone ... and am now on low dose methotrexate ... had no options to treat other than prednisone ... - Cyclophosphamide with high dose prednisone

I'm taking 20 mg of prednisone daily ... I've resumed taking 20 mg of prednisone ... daily and I'm on my second week of methotrexate ... Another positive note is that, if the methotrexate

I started on 15 mg prednisone, went ... The rheum added weekly methotrexate ... based on blood tests increased the prednisone ... January so on my own have decreased prednisone ... The methotrexate seems to make a big

starting you on another medication like methotrexate ... your pain and also taper you off the ptednisone ... inflammatory that should not be taken with prednisone

I am still on 8 mg Prednisone daily, ... 7.5 mg Methotrexate weekly for the ... last 8 months or so, tapering down on Prednisone ... in seeing if I need to increase the Prednisone

I responded to prednisone like a miracle ... Rheumy eventually tried to wean the prednisone ... and added methotrexate when my bilat ... I also had developed Prednisone Induce ... Shortly after being on the prednisone

I was started on Methotrexate and later ... he added Prednisone, which I was on ... So he discontinued the Methotrexate ... follow the following protocol with Prednisone ... significant hair loss, much after I stopped Methotrexate

I was put on 20 mg prednisone with my ... it took me 3 years to taper off of prednisone ... I was finally able to stop taking prednisone ... Methotrexate overlooked for treating ... PMR -- http://medicalrepublic.com.au/methotrexate-overlooked-treating-pmr

was placed on plaquenil and later methotrexate ... But with the prednisone, for the first

I started out at 20 mg prednisone a ... a month. 3 months ago they added methotrexate ... I am on methotrexate as a way of weaning ... me off the prednisone.

Prednisone is the only medication that ... rheumatologist and have also taken methotrexate

I am in the process of weaning off prednisone ... I was on methotrexate and a sulphurlazine ... plaquinel and the prednisone. ... now in my 5 th week of weaning off prednisone

it took me 3 years to taper off of prednisone ... I was finally able to stop taking prednisone ... It might be worth discussing methotrexate ... it may let you use lower doses of prednisone ... Methotrexate in polymyalgia rheumatica

about how long I can expect to be on prednisone ... and if I should consider methotrexate

Started on 40 mg Prednisone and symptoms ... Now down to 7 mg Prednisone and Methotrexate

preparing for a mri I was given prednisone ... The prednisone relieved the muscle pain ... I have been decreasing the prednisone ... I was then told to add 12.5 mg methotrexate ... am back down to 7 mg/day with the methotrexate

would have been treated with 60 mg of Prednisone ... and Methotrexate as well.

diagnosed my rheumatologist started me on Methotrexate ... changed to cyclophosphamide and massive prednisone ... Mycophenylate (2000mg/day) along with prednisone ... developed the noxious side effects to methotrexate

took my 3 years to finally get off of prednisone ... and I went back on a 20 mg dosage of prednisone ... I have been off of prednisone for about ... I have no experience with Methotrexate ... NIH - Methotrexate in polymyalgia rheumatica

blood work to return he started me on Methotrexate ... daily doses of both Mycophenylate and Prednisone