I was on and off at 60mg in 2007 then crashed big time and was for a short while up to 160mg. I started to reduce quicker than my docs wanted, but I was a balloon. By June 2008 I was down to zero, but not before I fractured three vertebrae. I lost 40 pounds by March and dropped another 40 or so by the end of 2008.

I had tried to taper off prednisone and crashed about three times since 2003, so this was my first successful taper. I think it worked because I was in remission; the combo of extremely high prednisone and plasmapherisis did it (maybe). I wouldn't want to go that route again, as no one thought I would make it.

Bill