Hi All,

I had my follow up with rheumatology today and they are going to continue my pred taper! I've been at 40 mg about 4 weeks. (After 60 mg for 6 weeks) Now they are going to decrease me by 5 mg every week til I'm at 20. then they'll see how I'm doing before going lower.

I have my next Rituxan infusion in Dec and then they will continue that every 4-6 mos.

My question is this: when a person comes off prednisone don't they start a maintenance drug like methotrexate or immuran? Or is that comparable to continuing with Rituxan?

I guess I thought a new med would be starting but I forgot to ask about that at my appt.

As a side note, they did a lot of labs today to recheck my c-ANCA and other markers. Plus urine labs to check kidneys.

Thx
Gab