Well I know I've been tired when getting home from work, but the last couple of days!
Driving home from work yesterday and again today I felt really tired.
Getting ready for work today I was still tired, had, what was for me, a good night.
Well, no need to get up early for a few days 
Happy weekend everybody. have a good one.
I think it is the thought of being able to rest soon that does you in. Have a really restful, slothful, lazy, weekend. The jobs will wait.
Saturday will be a sleep day, Sunday have to do something for a few hours.
Monday is a long drive, just have to get SWMBO to drive home
Sounds like your adrenals are a bit flat. My energy levels have been pants since getting below 8mg. Some days are rubbish, then I’ll rally, then it’s back to walking through treacle. No disease symptoms however.
I think your right, getting closer to more days on 6mg than on 7mg.
I'm sure I'll get through it or go back to 7mg!
I was worse on 7. I felt like I didn’t have enough to deal with the day (of not very much) but no extra juice coming from the adrenals. It felt better on 6, but some days nothing works.
I'm right in the middle of my taper, with luck I'll be less tired in a few days.
At least I know to expect fatigue, this morning was a hard one, could so easily have stayed home from work!
Maybe 6.5 for a while?
Not going to be easy, I'm on coated pred so can't cut them.
I will be getting 2.5's when I next talk to the doctor and I'll be reducing by .5 from now on.
Extra couple of hours in bed this morning an no doubt a few hours sleep during the day and I'm sure I'll be a lot better. If not it will be a holding pattern until I can get the 2.5's and continue at 6.5.
Choices choices choices, so many but they all involve pred 
Hi Julian. I asked doc to prescribe me both coated and uncoated 1 mg tablets, so that if I needed 0.5 mg reduction I could cut them. Doc obliged so that I have the option. Might be worth considering?
Down to 2mg you can use 2.5s and 1s to make up a dose of enteric coated with 0.5mg drops.
Hope I don't sound too dumb, but what difference does it make? Which would I use to cut in 1/2?
You must not cut entric coated tablets - it takes the entire point of the coating away. That why it is better to mix 2.5mg enteric coated plus whole mg denomination tablets - some people would find even the small amount of a 1/2mg cut plain pred tablet could irritate their stomach. It would also enter the bloodstream very quickly while the enteric coated part of the dose was still in the gastrointestinal tract so might get a bit "lost".
Perhaps you too need new coil..
Have a good weekend...lots of driving for me so next week will be the charm. 🌻
Very good, does feel like I need a bigger spark
Hi Julian, I was tapering from 7 to 6 and was almost a month in and omg fatigue hit like I have never felt before! I was driving home from work, sitting at traffic lights and desperately wanted to rest my head on the steering wheel until lights changed 🙈 I didn’t though lol it actually lasted a couple of days and back up to 7mg I went.
That’s where I am now a week later but still don’t feel as good as I was before the fatigue.
Hope you get through it and come out the other side, good luck x
Bummer... hopefull, this too shall pass.
I'm sure it will Melissa, but I can always hold or go backup, time is one thing I have plenty of
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I hope your body will benefit from the extra rest - this illness is so restricting
I find the mental challenges at work to be the most draining. I am at 6 and staying for two weeks as I am really blah. Two more days and I am retired. Cutting my work hours has really helped me. I am very blessed in that aspect.
Yes, the mental stress from work doesn't help. I wish I could retire. Actually, I wish this would go away, so that I'm not always wishing I could retire. I'm happy you're able to cut your hours.
Thanks I get what you are saying. After two plus years I couldn't keep on.
I agree. I was off sick with this for 10 months, but have now returned to work on four days a week. I don’t want to retire but I’m not sure I can keep going as I am. It’s hard going. I’d rather this just went away, but in the meantime I’ve just got to accept it is what it is and do a better job of pacing. I’m still too young to retire.
Yes each day we are a step closer to being well 😃
Great way of looking at it!
Easier for me to say as I am in the home stretch I believe. Couldn't have said that two years ago sorry to say.
Fatigue at 5.5 mg pred
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Frightening Fatigue 
