Originally Posted by
annekat
Thanks for explaining, Alysia. I haven't gotten that low yet. Headaches were only a problem for me right around the time of my dx, so now it is helpful to know they could happen again if I try to get off pred. For you to keep taking 5mg. indefinitely doesn't sound too bad and I think quite a few others end up doing that.
That is my current plan. I had to go down by 1/4 mg to get down to 5 mg. I cut some 1 mg pills into half and some 2.5 mg pills into half and then mixed and added as needed to my 5 mg pill for my taper down.
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