I might be misunderstanding but 20 straight to 10 seems like a big decrease. Also, 40 days to go from 40 to 0 is too quick. I could understand going down by 5 every week or so with the last 20 taking...
I think the prednisone taper depends on the person and the length of time they were on prednisone. I was on it for about 2 years or so and my last 5mg was done in a month and I felt fine....
I have BCBS. My Doctor had to get approval from BCBS and while they didn't approve it at first when my Dr. explained my current quality of life they approved it....
I think if your resistance to 2 TNF blockers you're likely to be resistant to all of them similar to how they didn't work for you....
My diagnosis is severe Ulcerative Pancolitis. In order, I started with Prednisone and continued to take that while taking first Pentasa, then Imuran, and moving onto Humira. Finally, I used the...
I have taken (2 1/2 years but taken off due to the severe weight gain and possible future complications and only brought stools from 20+ a day to around 10 or so a day and not a lot for urgency)...
I started Xeljanz about 7 weeks ago and it's worked better than any other medication. I no longer have the urgency I had. I previously had difficulty with longer than 30 second wait times before...