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Has anyone experienced steroid myopathy?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Oct 6, 2024 | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
Doctors don't tell their patients very often that they have steroid induced myopathy. When you clarify that steroid induced myopathy is a feeling of weakness and also muscle wasting then I see people complain about those symptoms all the time.
I think PMR pain sometimes overshadows what happens to our muscles when we take prednisone for a long time. I definitely had muscle weakness and muscle wasting but I was never told I had myopathy.
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I was only talking about this to a physio friend at the gym yesterday. I am now on 8.5 of Pred and very slowly increasing the weights I use in training but my left arm still feels very weak. He says I have done everything right and as I taper the weakness should feel less noticeable. He did laugh when I said I imagined pred teeth eating all the protein I consume before it helps the muscles. But it is a challenge and me and my myopathy have reached an understanding. I know it is there so I have to work harder to shut it up.