How fast is too fast to get off the Pred?

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Hi All,

My doctor called me at home last week and said that he had talked with another

doctor about me and they decided to start weening me off the pred. So, I am

going down from 5 weeks at 100 mg a day to:

(reducing each week to):

60

40

30

20

Then once I get to 20 - I go down every 5 days to:

15

10

5

4

3

2

1

I will be finally off Dec. 16th. I have noticed that my eyesight in the eye

affected has gone down - worse vision. Also, today I feel tired, it is hard to

hold my head up a bit and I was hot and dizzy. But I did have that when I was

on the 100 mg a day sometimes too - just not the reduction in the sight though.

So, what do you folks think?

KP