[1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR-BHPR guidelines suggesting an initial prednisone dose comprised between 15 and 20 mg as appropriate. [2] However ...

Prednisone therapy, 40 mg. a day, was instituted ... with improvement in strength and energy of the patients, can in part be attributed to the nonspecific effects of steroid medications, but ...

A tapering dose involves starting with a higher dose and slowly stepping down the strength and/or frequency ... as opposed to ...