Update

[Rosbud]

Saw GP this morning , had bloods taken and he immediately upped my pred to 20 daily for 1 week to then reduce to 15 , he will ring me with blood results and decide how long to stay on 15 and when to start tapering again , does this make sense to anybody ?

[SheffieldJane]

Hi Rosebud, do return to DorsetLady 's detailed advice to your last post. Click on your own name and you will get to your previous responses. That is the way to manage it. Blood tests can be helpful but unfortunately they don't tell the story like the symptoms do. I would stay on 15 mgs until my symptoms settled, this could be two weeks or more. Good luck!

[Rosbud in reply to SheffieldJane]

Thank you so much will take this advice on board x

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Yes, he’s obviously realised you have had a flare, so the 20mg should get a grip of things, and the drop back to 15mg without too much trouble. As SJ says stay at the 15mg until you’re sure that’s okay.

When you speak to GP “suggest” a 1mg drop rather than the 2.5mg you tried before as that didn’t work very well did it!

By all means show him my taper as well and suggest following that, he may pooh-pooh it, but on the other hand he might think it’s okay.

[Rosbud in reply to DorsetLady]

Will definitely show the your taper and hopefully he'll agree x

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Above all though - if you get back to 15mg OK, don't reduce any further in big steps, 1mg at a time is far better!

[Rosbud in reply to PMRpro]

I told him I thought it was to big A drop and he just smiled , so fingers crossed he's willing to listen , he is A good GP x