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Old 12-28-2013, 10:17 PM
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Tapering prednisone is really rough. How long since you tappered down to 50mg? For every tapper I did, it took 2-4 weeks for my symptoms to stabilize. Perhaps 60 to 50 is too fast. Maybe you could ask your neuro if you could tapper by 5mg every time.

I suffered worse side effects from the tapper than the MG. WHile I was on the highest prednisone dose, I felt great but could not sleep. When I started to tapper, I has severe muscle pains, headache, dizziness, severe fatigue. I even fell on the steps. I am down to 10mg every other day and have been on that for 3 month and not experiencing any side effects from the prednisone withdrawal. I will be on that for several months more until the cellcept, I just started on, kicks in.

Let me know how you do,
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