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Interesting question @patricianolson. I've had PMR flare ups twice and I have degenerative arthritis in my spine and joints along with a TKR for my right knee. I had the TKR following my last occurrence of PMR but the problem with the knee started when I tore the cartilage and had surgery to remove it in my younger days before my health problems started. My personal gut feeling is that they are not related but then I'm not a medical expert. There is another discussion where a similar question was asked.
-- PMR and preexisting knee pain: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-and-preexisting-knee-pain/
Also, I did find some related research that points out you are not alone with this question.
-- Patients' views on the causes of their polymyalgia rheumatica: a content analysis of data from the PMR Cohort Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278275/
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A quick (too quick) observation is that even if a body stress is not caused by PMR, and PMR is not caused by a particular body stress.
Stress is stress, and my experience is one can antagonize the other. And in fact if both are unaddressed, both effects can be magnified beyond the potential distress if they were independent.
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Did your torn cartilage surgery happen back in the days when they automatically removed the cartilage?
I was told that I wouldn't need the cartilage!!!
I have "degenerative arthritis" in my spine too. I have no idea what caused that because I can't think of any back injury I ever had. I was diagnosed and have a "history of" inflammatory arthritis that caused significant lower back pain. Now my lumbar spine is a complete mess and needs a fusion. I don't want that surgery.