Luckily, I'm 2 days from my prednisone ... Then, my rheumatologist prescribed methotrexate ... 15 mg weekly and a higher prednisone ... As I've tapered closer to 0 prednisone ... also getting slightly thinner, but methotrexate

I am not taking methotrexate but I am ... I also take a low dose of prednisone

I’m on prednisone and methotrexate ... Tried to taper off prednisone and had

Usually if you have tried methotrexate ... Methotrexate is older cheaper RA drug ... Once you are off prednisone you can ... cortisol that is being supplied by prednisone ... Prednisone is not your friend.

With PMR, he was put on 30 mg prednisone ... He was then put on 80 mg of daily prednisone ... But all the prednisone caught up with ... with patients when they put them on prednisone ... Heparin Warfarin Cyclosporine Methotrexate

I am tapering off of Prednisone started ... My rheumatologist wants me to start Methotrexate

There are other drugs such as methotrexate ... A trial of Prednisone would probably

I have been weaning off of prednisone ... over a month ago my doctor put me on Methotrexate

I was given methotrexate for my SLE/ ... I’m unable to take prednisone due to ... I felt like the methotrexate was helping

of movement and I had to increase Prednisone ... that it had anything to do with the Methotrexate ... flares as I taper and I knew it was the Methotrexate

I have only used prednisone. ... No methotrexate at this point yet.

Did your Rheumatologist suggest Methotrexate ... an alternative while you taper from prednisone

Yes, still on Prednisone @ 8mg. ... I will ask my Doc if I can stop Methotrexate

;ve not met someone who started on methotrexate ... instead of prednisone, although it ... but I know others who have been on methotrexate ... its down sides, methotrexate did not ... of the inflammation and then go to methotrexate

For several years I was also on Methotrexate ... sometimes severe enough my Rheumy gives me Prednisone

#39;ve gained 18 lbs in 17 months of prednisone ... Down to 7mg daily. 20mg methotrexate ... One half mg per month of the old pregnisone

I have, Is there a time frame for Methotrexate ... of the year I started weaning off Prednisone

Increased the prednisone dose, suggested ... methotrexate. ... Hands got better with the prednisone

Probably the Methotrexate is just being ... Getting off prednisone will help with

I do not understand Methotrexate. ... nasty condition made worse because the prednisone