Prednisone should be reduced gradually to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms. Your healthcare provider will help create a tapering schedule based on your needs. Symptoms like achiness or fatigue are ...

Gradual withdrawal of glucocorticoids was successful among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after 2 years of clinically quiescent disease, without an increased likelihood of flares, ...

More than half of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica have a relapse during tapering of glucocorticoid therapy. Previous studies have suggested that interleukin-6 blockade may be clinically useful in ...

I’d become an eating machine with a loathsome attitude on prednisone, so I decided to conduct my own taper of the drug. Four months after my allogeneic bone marrow transplant, I left the Stanford ...

In a single-center, single-arm, open-label pilot study, 30 adults (mean age, 73.7 years) with GCA received 162 mg of tocilizumab as a subcutaneous injection once a week for 52 weeks, plus prednisone ...