Flare dosage advice please

[Marek1]

Hi, any advice much appreciated !

Just recently I`ve suffered a flare in symptoms especially in the hips and hamstrings inner thighs , shoulders. etc. Iv`e had a lot of mental stress to deal with so it was not entirely unexpected .

Was on 10mg of pred daily and was due to reduce to 9mg shortly . But given the flare and following advice on here I boosted the dose to 15mg for the last 5 days to try and clear the build up of inflammation . Symptoms are now a lot better . Can I drop straight back to 10mg , or shall I drop by 1 mg at a time and if so for how long on each reduction till I get back down to 10 mg?

Thank you kindly

Marek

[piglette]

You can drop down to 10mg without having to taper as it is only five days on the higher dose. Perhaps go down to 11mg just in case and see how you feel.

[Marek1 in reply to piglette]

Thank you x

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

usual advice for dealing with flare contained in this link - but might be wise to drop down in 2 steps…

healthunlocked.com/pmrgcauk...

[Marek1 in reply to DorsetLady]

thank you

[PMRpro Ambassador]

You can drop straight back up to 10 days or so - but don't go back to where it happened, go the dose above and then make sure that is still OK.

[Marek1 in reply to PMRpro]

thank you