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A member asked:
I was prescribed 15 mg of prednisone for polymyalgia i want to taper down i have no pain but keep getting high blood sugar. and infections. also broken arm not healing. she lowered it by .25 mg for a month. i don't want to be on prednisone bad effe?
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0.25 is not much of a lowering. Discuss with your team there.
Answered 11/12/2022
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