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Off Prednisone but Residual Stiffness
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 27 7:15am | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
Did you ever get flares of uveitis along with the flares of reactive arthritis?
After I was diagnosed with reactive arthritis I never had any need for a rheumatologist. I always had a flare of uveitis and my ophthalmologist always prescribed 60 - 100 mg of prednisone which put the uveitis flare into remission and stopped the joint and back pain too. I had flares of uveitis once or twice per year for nearly 20 years. I didn't have any additional health problems so I also listed my ophthalmologist as my primary care doctor.
Everything changed after PMR was diagnosed when I started seeing doctors galore. They were finding all kinds of problems after PMR was diagnosed. I didn't know all the Prednisone was having harmful effects on me because the uveitis flares didn't last long. I was always able to taper off Prednisone in a couple of weeks for the uveitis flares. After PMR was diagnosed, it took me 12 years to taper off Prednisone.
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No, thank god. It was bad enough when I was first diagnosed—the most painful eye infection I ever had. My primary later told me he was worried I would go blind! The whites of my eyes were totally red and they were putting like three different drops in my eyes, in addition to the prednisone they gave me for all my inflammatory symptoms.
My infections all cleared up within a month, arthritis lasted about a year, after that I did not need my rheumatologist either cause I went into remission for 20 years…!