Posted by John O. on 10/17/2009, 4:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Daily Prednisone"
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HI Linda,
I was just about to write you. After my lung collapse on 1 April I obviously needed help from pred, but by Jun 1 I was down to 10mg, and except for a few brief flares stayed at that dose till mid Sept, then 9 for a month, now 8. And will go down 1mg a month from here on.
But that's me, with a long history of ups and downs. Last winter I was on 80mg for a week, and briefly, 100. If there's a drug where one size DOESN'T fit all, it's prednisone. I would think that your doc's tapering prescription seems right for you. If it isn't you can always ask him if you can inch it up a couple of mgs for a few days, then come back down again. That's worked a lot of times for me, too.
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