Good question, I've never heard of PMR going away on it's own with no type of treatment but I'm not sure it hasn't gone away for someone else with no treatment. I foolishly let my first flareup of PMR go without treatment for almost 4 months just because I didn't want to go to see a specialist until the following January when my new insurance would kick in. That's why it's really good for everyone to be their own advocate and learn as much as they can about the condition, how it's diagnosed and what treatments are available that help. The members here on Connect are great at sharing their combined knowledge and evidence based references.

Supposedly that was what happened before the Prednisone era of treating PMR. I pity the people who had to tolerate the pain and wait for PMR to burn itself out without prednisone.

Prednisone helps to ease the pain but we still need to wait until PMR burns itself out. Unfortunately, Prednisone causes adrenal suppression so people need to taper off slowly and have to take Prednisone for a long time. Many people are never able to taper off Prednisone no matter how slowly they taper.