Splitting Pred dosage

Just curious as to what everyone's thoughts are about splitting a pred dosage? I currently take 30 mg every morning, but most of my activity happens overnight and early morning. Obviously, this is the longest my body goes without any meds. So, I was curious if I should split the dosage - take 20 mg in the morning and 10 mg at bedtime? I will pose this question to my GI as well, but wanted to hear the thoughts of everyone here as well.

i noticed i had side effects no matter what time i took it. when i was on 40mg, i took 10 mg 4x a day. i continued to split my dosage as i tapered but doctors say it doesn't make a difference.

I am on 50 mg currently. I take 30mg in the morning with breakfast and 20mg at night with supper. I tend to do better with it this way. When I taper I start with the larger dose in the morning first then I alternate back and forth which dose goes down. I also start doing the back and forth method of tapering that Quincy once suggested. Like now I am tapering from 50 to 45 so i do 50 one day, 45 the next, 50 the next day, 45 the next then go to 45 for a week then I'll do 45 and 40 alternating for a few days before stablign out at 40. So far that is working for me.

My GI had me split mine. When I was on 40 mg, I took 10 mg at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime. When I dropped to 30 mg, I stopped taking the bedtime dose, etc. Once I got to 15 mg, I just took it all at once in the morning. He explained why, and if I remember correctly, it was because taking smaller doses throughout the day was less likely to suppress the adrenal glands than taking 40 mg all at once -- I think because the adrenals release the most cortisol in the morning.

I could just be making all that stuff up, though. ;)

good question - i've often wondered this - I've tried splitting it and it didn't do anything different to my symptoms. guess it's different for different people...?

I tried to split my dosage over the weekend, but had a hard time falling asleep and I felt strange the next morning. I had a pit in my stomach all day and had more BMs than usual, so I decided I will stick with all 30mg in the morning.