Hi @charlotte61 and @nancy53, don't be to scared about GCA, but be on the alert for symptoms - scalp tenderness, difficulties seeing, stiff neck, headache, loss of appetite, dry cough, itchiness, problems chewing, fatigue, loss of appetite. Any symptoms like that merit immediate attention, especially disturbances in vision, as you noted @nancy53.
Both my mother-in-law I had it, diagnosed with biopsies of the temporal artery.
We received high doses of prednisone, tapered and went into remission, with no lingering problems.
I have osteoporosis but it was diagnosed before I went on prednisone.