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New to PMR
Taking 15 mg Prednisone daily since ... before considering a start to slowly tapering ... off?
Last active: Jul 6, 2025
Can PMR present in the clavicle too?
I’ve been treated with prednisone and ... dropped below 5 mg of prednisone, it ... since tried three more times to get off ... off. ... and now I’m worried she’ll cut me off
Last active: Feb 14, 2025
Kevzara and prednisone for almost a year-
Kevzara and prednisone for almost a ... surgery in April of 2023 and had to be off ... Since getting back on the prednisone ... I have tried to taper down on the steriods ... The shoulders will fire up off and on
Last active: May 21, 2024
PMR & Statins
I was put on 60 mg of prednisone to ... I was able to start a prednisone taper ... I upped my prednisone to 3 mg. ... Currently I have taken myself off of ... I have been off prednisone for almost
Last active: Oct 15, 2025
Back on Prednisone
Back on Prednisone ... HFpEF heart failure, I had to get off ... of my prednisone quickly. ... I successfully tapered and May 30th ... I was concerned I had tapered too fast
Last active: Jun 21, 2025
Deficient disaccharidase & inflammation in small intestine
run including the taper. ... After about a week on the predisone, ... This doctor had us taper more quickly ... off of the predinsone because she reviewed ... Once he had to taper off the predisone
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Dec 13, 2022
Kevzara Side Effects?
I'm thinking of going off Prednisone ... my forearms and tops of my hands is paper
Last active: Apr 26, 2025
Bronchiectasis and staving off recurrent infections
Bronchiectasis and staving off recurrent ... on 14 days of levacquin (750) and prednisone ... (40 and taper).
Support Group: MAC & Bronchiectasis
Last active: Jun 24, 2024
Cryoglobulinemia Vasculitis Question
right now..im on Methotrexate and tapering ... off Prednisone..my symptoms that got
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Jul 30, 2024
Upcoming surgery prevents prednisone use
Upcoming surgery prevents prednisone ... to happen to me pain-wise when I go off ... 7 months before I would if I tapered ... I got PMR in August and have been tapering
Last active: Feb 28, 2024
Knee pain and PMR?
end of October 2024 and have been on prednisone ... ever since and tapering. ... until I wean off of it. ... pain, I should stay the course on prednisone ... for now because prednisone is not a
Last active: Dec 4, 2025
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, 2025
Prescribed Ofev, anyone have experience with this drug?
given an antibiotic and later took a prednisone ... taper which helped some. ... I was given 40 mgs. of prednisone and ... how much longer I'll need to be off
Support Group: Lung Health
Last active: Oct 31, 2025
Sugar and PMR
symptoms, even as I'm working at tapering ... off prednisone at the same time. ... noticed that the two times I fell off
Last active: May 24, 2024
Suspect Open Angle Glaucoma after seven months on prednisone
Angle Glaucoma after seven months on prednisone ... I started prednisone towards the end ... I began at 15 mg, and have tapered down ... once a day in the morning until I get off ... of the prednisone.
Last active: Nov 30, 2024
PMR: Are there treatment alternatives to Prednisone?
Are there treatment alternatives to Prednisone ... I've been on the PMR/Prednisone ... appetite--for which I tried to stave off ... These days, I've tapered down to ... an alternative to allow me to hop off
Last active: Jan 11, 2024
GCA Relapse - A Slow Burn
I thought I was doing so well, off Prednisone ... in Nov. 2023, a year after stopping Prednisone ... Rheumatologist prescribed a quick pack Prednisone ... m back in the saddle again, taking Prednisone ... the next two weeks, then starting a taper
Last active: May 2, 2024
My story may help
who are having difficulty getting off ... prednisone. ... I was on prednisone for 11 months all ... 10 mg within a few weeks and then tapering ... I ran out of prednisone and could not
Last active: Jul 6, 2023
Abdominal discomfort, bloating and acid reflux
with PMR and was started on 20 mg prednisone ... that I had been going too fast to taper ... off the prednisone. ... promised myself I won't rush the tapering ... this possibly be a side effect of prednisone
Last active: Nov 7, 2025