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Are painful swollen hands and fingers a PMR flare?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jul 4 1:54pm | Replies (158)Comment receiving replies
I saw my PCP yesterday June 20 and told him about my hand and wrist pain and swelling. Asked if PMR related. He said with inflammatory diseases the symptoms tend to overlap. Could be PMR, arthritis, lupus, etc. So inflammation may not be PMR related. Putting me on Meloxicam which he described as a little mallet compared to the big hammer of prednisone. More to follow when the scrip arrives
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Have you seen the "famous venn diagram" for spondyloarthritis discorders?
"This diagram shows the overlap between Ankylosing Spondylitis and other diseases that occur in the same patient or within families. However, when this Spondyloarthropathy concept was described in Leeds in the UK in the 1970s, the exact link between the conditions was not known."
https://enthesis.info/pathology/spondyloarthropathies.html
The link is the presence of enthesitis in all these disorders.
Pls keep us posted about meloxicam. My hands and wrists are nearly useless since May. My PMR is nearly gone, w 2mgs of pred daily now. Fingers crossed. Doc says hands have osteoarthritis. Never knew it could be so painful
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Lucky you being able to take an NSAID now that you've ditched prednisone. I hope the Meloxicam helps you and that you don't need to take it for long. Please let us know how you go.