You could try taking the Pred at 7 am with yoghurt or banana, in bed, and then get up at 9am and see if all is well. You never know. However, the other suggestions are valid, possibly getting moving is helping your back too. Arthritic pain can emerge on the low doses unfortunately.
This is interesting as I am down to 3.5 taken at 7.30 am with yogurt. I now seem to have a permanent stiff neck, aching elbows, swollen and painful hands, bursitis in both knees and something peculiar going on with my left foot, in short my body's a wreck! But I'm not sure it's PMR as paracetamol seems to help. I wondering if this is it for the rest of my life, I'm 77. 3 years ago I was running about like a 3 year old so my conclusion is PMR or steroids bring on more problems.
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