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Any experience with Actemra - for my mom who is 90 years old
year-old mother has GCA and has been on prednisone ... is recommending Actemra so she can taper ... • Did it help reduce or stop the prednisone
Last active: 1 day ago
Urgent Question Regarding Prednisone Burst Dosage
Urgent Question Regarding Prednisone ... After lots of struggles finally tapered ... All my work tapering will be gone and
Last active: Aug 29, 2022
PMR and Fatigue. Interesting study
can cause fatigue especially as you taper ... "If you abruptly stop taking prednisone ... or taper off too quickly, you may experience ... swings https://www.mayoclinic.org/prednisone-withdrawal
Last active: Sep 27, 2024
Statins - side-effects, PMR, Giant Cell Arteritis
He's been on high-dose Prednisone ... Started on 30 mg May 2023, tapered to ... daily for a few weeks, then tapered ... statin when he's doing well on tapering ... the prednisone and on the Actemra.
Last active: May 26, 2024
Prednisone Side Effects and Withdrawal Symptoms
Prednisone Side Effects and Withdrawal ... anyone else has experienced this.I was tapering ... But while I was tapering and got below ... As soon as I had to increase my Prednisone ... thinning skin is a side effect of Prednisone
Last active: Aug 16, 2024
PMR flare -Shoulder and neck pain..and headaches
I have been trying to taper down the ... prednisone and finally got back down ... decide whether to go back up to 9mg of prednisone
Last active: Jun 14, 2024
Rheumatoid Drs
about the disease itself or about tapering ... off of the prednisone. ... My Dr told me to start tapering off ... She never told me at what rate to taper
Last active: Mar 13, 2024
High eye pressure after cataract surgery
with all the eye drops and was put on predisone ... side effects still going on after tapering
Support Group: Eye Conditions
Last active: May 12 7:20am
Living with someone on high-dose long-term prednisone
with someone on high-dose long-term prednisone ... with someone on high-dose, long-term prednisone ... meantime, he just went down from 80 mg prednisone ... to 70 mg and tapering is going to take ... The prednisone really affects his moods
Last active: May 10, 2024
Remission, maybe.
with PMR on January 14, immediate Prednisone ... remission, but now to get off the prednisone ... I start to taper down from 10 mg prednisone
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Apr 22, 2024
Non-bilateral neck pain
responded immediately to a 15 mg dosage of Prednisone ... I’ve been tapering since the original ... discomfort has returned with each taper ... occasional dry eye which I attribute to the Prednisone
Last active: Jun 27, 2023
Autoimmune changes
after I was diagnosed with PMR, the prednisone ... have no itches...until now, when my taper ... autoimmune issues have been hidden by prednisone
Last active: Dec 12, 2023
New Methotrexate Study in PMR
#RCT MTX25mg/wk + Pred 15 Mg/d tapered ... to 0 at 1 yr vs #Prednisone + placebo ... same taper NO BENEFIT from #MTX
Last active: Nov 24, 2024
Kevzara and elevated liver enzymes ALT AST
has enabled me to break through my prednisone ... taper barrier of 10mg, so I'm now ... I'm tapering a bit faster than normal
Last active: Jan 29 11:07am
Anyone tried Actemra (Tocilizumab) to treat PMR? FDA approved for GCA
I have taken prednisone daily since ... My average prednisone dose over the ... had given up hope that I would ever taper ... off prednisone.Twelve years of prednisone ... been even more complicated but I was prednisone
Last active: May 21, 2024
Using methotrexate with PMR
He was prescribed prednisone and tapered ... cardiologist who told him to stop any prednisone
Last active: Feb 3 11:37am
Autoimmune attacking my lungs
I was given prednisone 20mg In June ... and now am tapered off to 5 mg.
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Jun 17 10:51pm
PMR questions about prednisone, surgery limitations, pain and more
PMR questions about prednisone, surgery ... I have heard that people taking Prednisone ... I started tapering my Pred. dose from
Last active: Feb 27, 2023
Deficient disaccharidase & inflammation in small intestine
They put him on prednisone for a 6 week ... run including the taper. ... After about a week on the predisone, ... This doctor had us taper more quickly ... Once he had to taper off the predisone
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Dec 13, 2022