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Originally Posted by Grizabella
I know this question is from a couple of months ago but I just wanted to let the first questioner know that I've been on varying doses of prednisone for about 20 years and am now on 5 mg. daily permanently. You just have to watch out for infections because of the prednisone suppressing the immune system. You'll be more susceptible to infection. If I get an infection started, I just taper down by one mg. a week for a week or two and then go back up. Maybe this will help others who are wanting to know, too.
My peripheral neuropathy is genetic and of an inflammatory nature and that's why I take it. It caused the numbness in my legs to recede clear down to my ankles and I quit falling so easily.
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I am wondering about taking it for my chronic back pain.
Do you have the "moon face" that so many doctors say result from taking prednisone every day, all year long?
Or is the dose low enough to help without affecting you negatively.
When I took prednisone recently for poison oak, the side effect was I had no back pain what so ever. I really thought I had died and gone to heaven. So I a now thinking of a lower dose that I would take daily, but am concerned about long term side effects?
And am wondering if 5 mg or 2 mg would be low enough to avoid the side effects but high enough to keep the pain at bay.