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By James Goodwin MD. The classic recommendation for initial treatment of temporal arteritis has been to commence with prednisone at a dosage of 40 to 80 mg/day, though 60 mg/day or above has been more commonly described than lower doses.f headache or other signs of temporal arteritis emerge during the course of polymyalgia rheumatica, however, it is important to increase the prednisone dosage to the levels recommended for initial treatment of temporal arteritis.
For opioid-naive patients, who have an acute episode of dyspnoea, use: immediate-release morphine 2.5 to 5 mg orally, OR, morphine 1 to 2.5 mg SC. For opioid-naive patients, if breathlessness is continuous, use: sustained-release or controlled-release morphine 10 to 20 mg per 24 hours orally, regularly.If ineffective (but tolerated), the dose can be titrated up.pioid analgesics are the cornerstone to treatment and control of severe pain. Equivalence of dose potency is not absolute and care must be taken in changing analgesics. In general, it is safer to use a lower regular dose with breakthrough analgesia rather than to convert immediately to the âequivalentâ dose.