Myasthenia Gravis patients. Do you take cellcept with Prednisone and how much?

20 Apr 2011

i cant answer your ? directly but can tell u where else to look to get xtra opinion n other peoples experience with that med. people are saying pretty bad stuff about it... some1 had a ? about it and i read what people were saying and answered the ? myself. if you look in my profile you will see i answered a ? about Prednisone. if u click on that ?, itll tell you alot of what ppl think and experienced. some pretty bad and scary stuff n the fact you are taking it daily AND that much... scary too(or so ive heard)

10 Apr 2012

I took Prednisone for a year. I was up to 40 mg per day for a few months. I started taking Cellcept. I think I started at 2000 mg per day.

My Dr. had me step down the Prednisone. I went from 40 mg per day to 20, then 20 to 10 to 5. He had me stay at the new doses for at least a month.

From 5 mg per day, I went to 2.5 mg per day every other day and 5 mg the other day. Then he had me go to 3 mg per day. Then 1 mg per day reduction per month.

After that, I stepped down the Cellcept from 2000 mg per day to 1500. Kept it at 1500 for a while (2 500 mg tablets in the morning and one in the evening). I am now just taking 1000 mg per day (2 tablets in the morning).

I have had MG since 2009.