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 ...

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 ...

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 ...