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 ...

How and when do you stop taking prednisone, a steroid to treat inflammation? Even if you have side effects from the medication, don’t stop cold turkey or cut back the dose on your own if you’ve been ...

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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 ...

A combination of tocilizumab plus prednisone-tapered therapy was superior to placebo plus steroid taper for achieving glucocorticoid-free remission in giant-cell arteritis (GCA), the phase 3 ...

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 ...

Avacopan and prednisone taper were associated with similar and substantial improvements in the control of active disease in multiple organ systems in the phase 3 ADVOCATE trial. Patients with ...