# Help with diagnosis **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [May 13, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/help-with-diagnosis/23048 "2026-05-13T22:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Isaiah\_40\_31](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.livingwitheagle.org/isaiah_40_31/32/3054_2.png) [@Isaiah\_40\_31](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/u/Isaiah_40_31)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/help-with-diagnosis/23048/20 "2026-05-18T23:01:10Z")
When I’ve taken steroids for various symptoms/pain, I’ve been instructed to start with a high dose & work down to a lower dose then wean off completely over a couple of weeks. I think the highest I ever started with was 50 mg for 2-3 days then down to 40, 30, 20, & 10 over time before stopping. You’d need to ask your prescribing doctor before doing that yourself, but that system worked well for me. If you’re taking prednisone over a longer period, then 25 mg may just take longer to be affective as @Jules & you both said. I’m sorry but I don’t know much about Botox either. I do recall, as Jules does, that it may take more than one injection for it to be effective. Here’s a link to a recent post by @Kgreene where she mentions Botox helped relieve her symptoms: [What I’ve been up to! - #4 by Jules](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/what-i-ve-been-up-to/23085/4) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livingwitheagle.org/t/help-with-diagnosis/23048)._