Prednisolone tapering chart

[Smelliott]

Hi all

I've not been around much recently, which as you can imagine means things have been going much better (thank you, Adalimumab). As of this week I FINALLY managed to get off of prednisolone, hooray!

I had verrry little guidance on tapering from my rheumatologist, but I found this site which has a very slow tapering plan on it which I followed to the letter (plus other interesting and useful information). It worked like a dream, and I didn't feel any ill effects at all. Thought someone might find it useful...

imperialendo.com/prednisolo...

Hope you're all well

x

[oldtimer]

Thanks for the link - it's possible that I might be able to try again to reduce with the addition once on new treatment. Previous attempts have failed and this would be my fourth attempt.

[Lolabridge]

Thank you for posting the link. That's very helpful advice. I've managed to get off Prednisolone after 3 years but I've saved a copy in case I should ever need it in the future.

[nomoreheels]

Thanks for this, saves me looking. It is very clear plan. I’ve recently had my maintenance dose pred temporarily increased & given a very fuzzy tapering plan in a rushed manner, & which I think is too sudden, so have bookmarked this & will refer to it when the time comes.

[Neonkittie17]

Well done 👏🏻 The rheumy should do that for you though. Mine was very specific about my taper. Your link looks very useful though.

[Mmrr]

Thankyou for this.I'm using something similar, but it is useful to see it clearly laid out like this.

[1ChLoE]

Thank you so much for that. I have remembered to save it this time. I have managed in the past to reduce my prednisolone, using this method. It worked very well for me. I tried to follow my rheumatologist advice but the reduction was far to quick and caused me to suffer lots of withdrawal pains unnecessarily.

[Angels54]

Hi any advice as I cut my prednisone down to 2 felt really lethargic had to put them up to 5 again must get off them .