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What justifies an increase in prednisone?
What justifies an increase in prednisone ... I have been tapering for 5 months. ... Her reasoning is that the prednisone ... off the med. ... Am I off base to wonder this?
Last active: Aug 8, 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 ... I really want to get off of these stuff
Last active: Jun 14, 2024
Heat affects stamina?
At the moment I'm on 11 mg Prednisone ... and trying to taper off 1/2 mg every
Last active: Feb 8 1:43pm
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 ... realized that PMR was taking a few days off
Last active: Dec 12, 2023
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
Just Started Actemra
March 2022 and felt like 25 mg of Prednisone ... dramatically as soon as we started to taper ... my Prednisone dose. ... after 2 + years I am still on 20 mg of Prednisone ... after 2 shots I ended up being taken off
Last active: Aug 12, 2025
Remission, maybe.
with PMR on January 14, immediate Prednisone ... says I’m in 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
Chronic GVHD at 11 months post stem cell transplant: Discouraged
the other meds that go with it and prednisone.It ... for 6 months before they’ll try to taper ... experience has been in fully getting off ... immunosuppressants - are most people able to get off
Last active: Dec 12, 2025
High eye pressure after cataract surgery
with all the eye drops and was put on predisone ... side effects still going on after tapering ... off.
Support Group: Eye Conditions
Last active: May 12, 2025
PMR and Flu Vaccine
January 2025, and now successfully tapered ... off Prednisone after 6 months.
Last active: Nov 20, 2025
New to PMR
Taking 15 mg Prednisone daily since ... before considering a start to slowly tapering ... off?
Last active: Jul 6, 2025
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 ... I’ve had this pain off and on for more ... occasional dry eye which I attribute to the Prednisone
Last active: Jun 27, 2023
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
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
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
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
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: Dec 12, 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