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Originally Posted by Tunaboy
I'm only going off of my first neuro visit when I only had slight numbness and tingling in my leg. She prescribed me 60mg for 3 days, 40mg for 3 days, 20mg for 3 days, 10mg for 3 days, 5mg for 3 days. I figure now that my symptoms have worsened, I might need to be on it longer. But for now i'm gonna stay under 2 weeks and see what happens.
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When I had my terrible toxic spider bite, many years ago upNorth on vacation, I did a pred taper that was similar. Only I started at 40mg (I thought 60 was too much), and I extended the taper to include 2.5mg after the 5mg for 3 days. That was the first steroid I used. The return of my arthritis pain after that taper was a shock and considerable.
Last summer I just took 10mg a day for 2 weeks and tapered off to 5 then 2.5 over the next two weeks. That worked very well. The shock of the taper was much less. This was for my back flare.
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