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Anti-inflammatory diet and supplements for PMR
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 3 days ago | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
Well my story is that when I got PMR a year and 4 months ago, I had been a vegetarian for well over 30 years, the few times a year I ate meat or seafood it had had a decent small farm life or was locally caught (like venison or shrimp) and I took about 15 supplements a day (like my mom who is about to be 88 and is not on a single Rx), and I made everything from scratch from salad dressings to cookies to tomato sauce. After my diagnosis I started walking my dogs 5 miles a day, and I have tapered from 20mg of prednisone VERY slowly, and am on 3/4 of a mg at present, and in about a week will go to 1/2 a mg. Once I got down to 5mg is when I started the decrease in small increments; I slice those tiny pills into tiny pieces and do my best to figure out what I am taking. So, do diet and supplements play a roll? I really don't know as everyone's PMR journey is unique with generalites thrown in. If diet is so important then why did my body attack itself when my diet was extremely healthy in the first place? I'm not looking for an answer to that question of course, just saying.
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I also eat very healthy and I think I caught one cold in about 30 years, so I felt that I had a very strong immune system. Unfortunately, I contracted PMR after my second Pfyzer vaccination and I know one other person who was also very healthy who contracted an auto-immune disease after her vaccination. Coincidence? I don't think so. Why? Not sure.
I had a nurse friend tell me to only split pills if they have an indentation on the top which indicate that they guarantee to have the same amount of active ingredient on both sides. Otherwise you may or may not be getting the amount of active ingredient you imagine. My 1mg pills have a split on the top where I split them. I am down to .5 mg now and starting to taper to 0.
Week 1: .5, .5, .5, .5, .5, .5, 0
Week 2: .5, .5, .5, .5, .5, 0, 0
Week 3: .5, .5, .5, .5, 0, 0, 0
Week 4: .5, .5, .5, 0, 0, 0, 0
etc.
But whatever works! Good luck!
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I know what you are saying about your very healthy diet! And you got PMR anyway. I had a friend who ate a very healthy diet with supplements and passed away from cancer! And what about all those people who never smoked , ate healthy and passed away from lung cancer? It is a mystery to me….