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@drtiminaz, It sounds like you have a pretty good plan for tapering off of prednisone and...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/245728/
like you have a pretty good plan for tapering ... off of prednisone and it's going ... correct about being a side effect of the prednisone
Discussion: PMR and the new Shingles vaccine
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Jul 6, 2020
Hello @kharquail, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect and thank you for helping your father. Not sure...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/314424/
Prednisone does seem to be the drug ... Both were treated starting with 20 mg prednisone ... and instructions to taper off when ... off of prednisone. ... off.
Discussion: PMR Relapse
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Jun 21, 2020
@ncgal, I don't think there is specific tapering schedule. Each person is affected differently with their...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/138134/
don't think there is specific tapering ... off of prednisone. ... off. ... Sometimes I did it on a weekly taper ... off of prednisone.
Discussion: How to address PMR pain while decreasing prednisone
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Jun 13, 2020
Hi Bill @charlie333, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I think all of us that have had...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/299092/
PMR can understand wanting to get off ... but it took me a year and a half to taper ... off of prednisone. ... earlier and took me 3-1/2 years to taper ... off of prednisone.
Discussion: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR), prednisone and Coronavirus COVID-19
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: May 3, 2020
@steelbh - I have moved your post here to this discussion @johnbishop recommended so that you...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/286605/
I have been on prednisone before for ... some thoughts from their previous tapers ... off of prednisone. ... I always just followed a taper plan ... doctor suggested a schedule for the taper
Discussion: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): Meet others & Share Your Story
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Mar 9, 2020
Thanks for your reply. Very interesting how slowly you tapered off towards the end. From 60...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/286572/
Very interesting how slowly you tapered ... off towards the end. ... 20 mg for 4 weeks: then the gradual taper ... the "bad" side effects of Prednisone
Discussion: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): Meet others & Share Your Story
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Jan 22, 2020
Hi @virginiaj, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Your story is similar to mine except I had...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/286549/
It took me 3 years to taper off off ... prednisone. ... dose until I was finally able to be off ... of prednisone. ... off of prednisone which was almost
Discussion: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): Meet others & Share Your Story
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Dec 29, 2019
Hello, new to these posts, groups and all of this information. I have had atopic dermatitis...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/161948/
doctors gave me overdose amounts of prednisone ... eating everything, it took weeks to taper ... off the prednisone but and so glad ... I am off of it.
Discussion: Anyone have Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma?
Support Group: Blood Cancers & Disorders
Posted: Sep 9, 2019
Hello! Well, after almost a year of trying to manage the edema caused by the gamma...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/238999/
function on many levels due to edema, predniosne ... misery as she had great difficulty tapering ... off as the edema issues would always
Discussion: Swelling following gamma knife procedure for meninigioma
Support Group: Brain Tumor
Posted: Jul 28, 2019
that is amazing., seems you can't win. I am done to 4mg of prednisone just over...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/137969/
I am done to 4mg of prednisone just ... the pain remains manageable so I can taper ... right off of prednisone as yes, it
Discussion: How to address PMR pain while decreasing prednisone
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: May 20, 2019
Thanks John, Very sorry I miss quoted my Doc and she did not say " because...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/137940/
I have slowly tapered over the last ... on 1mg every other day and will go off ... Prednisone soon. ... I realize may have to go back on prednisone
Discussion: How to address PMR pain while decreasing prednisone
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: May 7, 2019
I was diagnosed with PMR a year ago. Started on 15mg of prednisone then gradually tapering...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/192806/
Started on 15mg of prednisone then gradually ... tapering off to 5mg by December. ... as I don’t seem to be able to get off ... prednisone and this is a way of doing ... 3 months then will start reducing prednisone
Discussion: PMR and Methotrexate
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Mar 18, 2019
@colleenyoung thank you for the MG link. I will take a look. My dad is losing...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/132580/
Prednisone 60 mg PO and IVIG every 3 ... The prednisone ( for MG) is exacerbating ... We are tapering 5 mg q2weeks so is going ... to take awhile for him to get off it
Discussion: Anyone out there with Thymoma/Thymic Carcinoma
Support Group: Cancer
Posted: Mar 14, 2019