Shar
Hi Ida, I wonder what's going on with your PMR, since you are having a new symptom of stiffness all over? That's terrible! Maybe you ought to give the doctor a call about that. It could be that you need to go up to 15 mg of Prednisone for a few days, to kick start your body into controlling the PMR! My rheumy had me do that several times, and then I tapered to 12.5 mg and again, down to the 10 mg which I'm presently on, and that did help. If I didn't have swelling and pain in my fingers and foot and elbow, which are fairly new symptoms and not common in PMR, I would not have needed to go on the Methotrexate. These new symptoms didn't respond fully to the higher dose of Prednisone either, but they are improving on the Methotrexate. I have a feeling that these symptoms are not PMR, but probably are RA. At least I'm getting the right medicine for them, and it will help me in tapering the Prednisone below 10 mg, which I haven't been able to do for several months. Please let me know how you are doing, especially with that all over stiffness! Take good care! Shar