Night time Aches

Bones, joints and muscles
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hi ever one , do any of you special people with PMR suffer from night time aches and pains from PMR ,I am 56 yr female ,had PMR for three years and very very slowly reduced from 20 mg to 2 mg ,in the day time I am really good ,hardly any pain ,do very soft exercise ,walking my dogs , house work ,a little gardening nothing strenuous,and all is ok no pain  ,but when I go to bed I feel so much stiffness and pain at turning over in bed I am like a different person .so I think do I need to up my Pred ,but like I say I am fantastic till I go to bed .

love Karen x

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Hi sorry to hear this but we'll done for getting down to 2mg.

I am no expert not long being treated for PMR myself. I am sure one of the experts will have the answer?

But I was wondering if swapping the time you take the pred would help?

Maybe take it in the evening? Or split the dose 1mg morning and 1mg evening?

It may not make any difference but it may be worth a try?

Good luck. Hope your pain free soon. Xxx

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Hi Charlie's , good idea to change time for my pred ,will try that today and let you know how I get on x

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may be time for a new mattress. Maybe its too soft and you need a firmer one. 

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I think the changing the time you take the pred is a good idea to start with - although if it is a case of you need a bit more to cover all day you might find you just change the time you are sore. Anything below 5mg is a low dose and really nothing to worry about - so if 3 or 4mg does the job better than switching times I'd go back up a bit.

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Karen, recently we purchased a very expensive firm mattress and I had a similar problem.  It bothered me so much I was ready to buy another mattress but tried a suggestion of putting a soft cover top.  I did not think it would work but it did. Doing fine !!

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HI Karen, yes I experienced a similar problem at 2mg, so tried splitting my dose and later upped my dose to 3mg on two days of the week...after a couple of weeks things settled and I was able to continue tapering. 

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Thank you handbresl , thing going to up PRED to 3 like you suggested

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John we bought s new mattress in December and I have been ok at night until recently , so I may try the spare bed and try increasing my PRED , thanks John x

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Handbreak .... Silly predictive txt haha x

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Haha, Brest is best 😂😂😂

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Maybe you could mix up a few of the ideas. Increase your dose but split it?

2mg in the morning 1 or 2mg at night. See how that goes?

Good luck.

Let us know how you get on x

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