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Statins - side-effects, PMR, Giant Cell Arteritis

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: May 26 11:42am | Replies (22)
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It sounds like you’ve been through it all. I’m glad you’re improving. It is so hard to know which way to go when faced with the possibility of losing vision, strokes, aneurisms etc. That’s the position we were in when my husband developed GCA. Now to navigate through all this with added osteoporosis.

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DadCue | @dadcue | May 23 10:41pm

I didn't ever have osteoporosis but I do have excess bone formation in places where bone doesn't belong. My lumbar T-Score was +4 which isn't good either. I had my knees replaced and developed heterotopic ossification.

Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the presence of bone in soft tissue where bone normally does not exist. It is also called an aberrant healing process that was completely unexpected but possibly caused by excess inflammation. I seem to have too much bone in my lumbar spine but the surgeon says it isn't "good bone."

I try not to blame Prednisone for everything but it dysregulated many things.

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