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Anyone diagnosed with PMR after the Covid vaccine?

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 6 1:06pm | Replies (146)
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I had all the recommended Covid vaccine shots on schedule (Canada). Mine were all Pfizer. The last one was October 2023. I was diagnosed with PMR in February 2024 but the symptoms certainly began in November 2023. My understanding is that the type of vaccine, mRNA, may be linked to occurrence of PMR. I have never had Covid. How concrete is this correlation between an MRA vaccine and PMR?

Also, my osteoarthritis, primarily in my knees, is much worse than before PMR, is there any evidence that PMR worsens osteoarthritis?

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hunib33 | @hunib33 | May 2 8:05am

@slf202mcinfo. I can trace the onset of PMR to the last in the series of Pfizer vaccines. The symptoms actually started the year before, they were mild, they would come and go, and I couldn’t t connect them to anything. But after I took the last Pfizer booster, all the ‘phantom’ symptoms I’d been experiencing came together, stronger, more painful and debilitating and I was diagnosed PMR. (Jan 2023) I’m lucky my internist knew how to treat it, she started me on a strong dose of Prednisone for about 2 weeks and I tapered successfully from there. I wish you the best of health.

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