pred w/drawl???

I recently came out of a flare via 60mg of pred for a week and then tapering for another 2 weeks (5mg per day). My doc generally tries and get me off pred as soon as he can as thank***lly it acts fast for me and gets me to 1 normal BM per day quickly.

I'm off pred a few days now and BM is fine. But I am noticing that I am very fatigued and I seem to have some anxiety - worrying about little things. This is unusual for me.

Are these symptoms of pred withdrawl?

Thanks

That seems like an awfully fast taper to me. My doctor usually had me taper 5 mgm per week not per day.

I agree this seems to be a really quick taper especially given the very high dose to begin with (60 MG / day of Pred is a lot!).
You might ask your Dr. to order an ACTH Stimulation test. This test basically involves taking a baseline cortisol from your blood (usually first thing in the AM) and then intravenous injections of the hormone ACTH (which is made in the pituitary gland) and tests how your adrenal gland reacts to the hormone to create (or not create) cortisol.
My test came back such that my adrenal gland was barely responding or functioning at all, i.e., hardly making any cortisol.
They corrected this by putting me on 10 MG of Pred per/day for a month and I am now on a very slow taper of 1 MG per week over the next 10 weeks.
Your adrenal gland normally makes about 5-7 MG of cortisol per day so that is why they should taper so slowly - to allow the adrenal gland to "wake up" and kick back in to action.
Hope that helps,