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Has anyone used an anti inflammatory diet to get off prednisone ?
used an anti inflammatory diet to get off ... prednisone ? ... now and down to 2mg but each time I taper ... My goal has been to get off prednisone ... LDN and Celebrex (would like to get off
Last active: Sep 10, 2024
Fast Prednisone taper?
Fast Prednisone taper? ... issues I'm experiencing I need to taper ... off the prednisone fairly quickly. ... She wants me to taper as fast as possible ... down to 2.5 mg on Wednesday and be off
Last active: May 24, 2025
Prednisone love/hate support group
Prednisone love/hate support group ... a good source of information, the Prednisone ... on a wide variety of topics about prednisone ... about why it is such a struggle to taper ... off prednisone.
Last active: Dec 12, 2025
How many of you are on your second flare-up?
How many people have come off of Prednisone ... years and was finally able to wean off ... of Prednisone (after several flare-ups ... I held off calling my rheumy thinking ... tapering 1/2 pill every three days.
Last active: Oct 7, 2023
PMR savvy doctors in Portland Oregon
2008, have never been able to get off ... prednisone, and constantly feel pain ... , she is asking me to taper (my earlier ... told me that my constant efforts to taper ... blood tests before she will continue prednisone
Last active: Dec 2, 2024
When to start tapering
When to start tapering ... I've been doing ok on 25mg of prednisone ... by next dose for my rheum to start tapering ... me off? ... I'm hoping we can start tapering
Last active: Dec 1, 2025
Switching From Prednisone to Methotrexate!?
Switching From Prednisone to Methotrexate ... years ago and have been on low dose Prednisone ... for a few days and then tapering takes ... I have also come right off the pred ... rheumatologist has asked me to consider coming off
Last active: Aug 16, 2025
Prednisone tapering
Prednisone tapering ... 21 and I’m having a difficult time tapering ... off of the prednisone I was given along ... I’ve been tapering for 7 weeks from ... has not given me much support in the tapering
Support Group: Prostate Cancer
Last active: Feb 17, 2025
New to PMR diagnosis
took the initial diagnostic dose of tapered ... immediately so my Dr prescribed 5mg Prednisone ... started taking it yet.I am terrified of prednisone ... discussion about people trying to taper ... off Pred.
Last active: Feb 19 4:35am
Out of frying pan, into fire? PMR aftermath
Three months since tapering off. ... Somehow, I imagined that once off prednisone ... Since prednisone, my knees and hips,
Last active: Jan 18 11:33am
Shortness of breath ..dyspenia..while on prednisone
Shortness of breath ..dyspenia..while on prednisone ... rheumology land when my c- reactive was off ... But on the taper down to 7.5..the c-reactive ... dyspenia and increased gerd while on prednisone
Last active: Jun 4, 2025
Proton pump inhibitors and immunotherapy
enzymes were very high and was put on Prednisone ... (still tapering off before the next
Support Group: Cancer
Last active: May 1, 2023
Heating pad or ice pack
Prednisone up to 20 mg from5 (was hoping ... to taper off in a few weeks).
Last active: Jul 26, 2024
Is This a Safe Taper as Prescribed by my doctor?
Is This a Safe Taper as Prescribed by ... I’ve been on prednisone for about 18 ... months trying to taper. ... my doctor ever gave me was to get off ... prednisone as fast as possible.
Last active: Feb 24, 2025
Liver toxicity due to Azathioprine
I was taken off the azathioprine but ... continue with the prednisone for another ... 56 days on a taper dosage. ... enzymes to return to normal and while off ... tiredness while on azathioprine and prednisone
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Sep 21, 2025
Actemra & Methotrexate for GCA treatment
started a 60mg/day treatment with Prednisone ... I am now on Prednisone (10mg/day) and ... doctor is recommending that I start a Prednisone ... taper off program adding weekly Actemra ... the same dosage levels and reducing Prednisone
Last active: May 5, 2024
Anyone have granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) or Wegener's?
12.5 mg. per week of methotrexate Tapering ... off prednisone since May also-2.5 mg ... symptoms be related to the steroid tapering
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Dec 30, 2025
Small Fiber Neuropathy discouraged
neurologist placed me on 40 mg of prednisone ... me off of prednisone. ... I have been taporing for slmost a year ... The tapor is hell. ... The prednisone tapor is suppose to last
Support Group: Neuropathy
Last active: Apr 13, 2023
Possible GCA
in the meantime I started 50mg of prednisone ... I'm wondering what the tapering ... dose off 50 mg will be if it turns out
Last active: Jan 23 3:01pm
Prednisone to Kevzara
Prednisone to Kevzara ... 20 mg and have tried for a year to taper ... off. ... Now Dr says I have to get off Prednisone ... I cut Prednisone to 15 and so far have
Last active: Jun 18, 2024