The past two weeks have been tough for me. Symptoms include some sleep disturbance, daily headaches, increased irritability and volatile emotions, decreased drive and motivation, and general achy-ness... Hips, shoulders, back... I am so hesitant to increase my dose - at what point can you determine a flare from something else? (I.e., over doing it, emotional processing, is my discomfort from PMR or something else? ( I have been on 8 mg of methyl prednisolone for about 6 weeks.)