Re: Joint pain while tapering Prenisone

[Guest guest]

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> .... Anyone have any

> experience with joint pain from lower doses of Prednisone?

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Heavens, yes!!! In fact it affects joint pain so much for me, that

for the last several years I've taken a round of prednisone JUST so

that I could get through CT scans. I have spinal stenosis and

fibromyalgia, and the pain would be extreme during the CT and for a

week or two afterwards; the prednisone does the trick every time for

me. The one really nice thing about being on prednisone for 5 years

was that bone and joint pain was almost totally gone.

It might be, too, that 's taper was going just a wee bit too

fast. The longer you've been on prednisone, the more gradual the

taper has to be in order to keep your body happy.

Regards,

Carolyn B. in SC

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Thanks for the reassurance, maybe his local GI whom he sees today will

be able to readjust his taper. I told him he was just getting old and

the Prednisone has been hiding that fact for a while. He took

Prednisone prior to his J pouch surgery for years due to the UC. He

was off of it for close to two years and now back on it since

transplant. I think his body just likes the stuff.

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