← Return to Medications for Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)

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@kmn1957

Hi,
Ice only been on the prednisone 1 day. My pain is would always chock up to either ankylosing spondylitis, or fibromyalgia, or osteoarthritis. But it feels more like in my muscles and tendons. Neck, shoulder, back, hip area. My feet my ankles, when that happens i can hardly walk. They send me to therapy, which helps maybe a little, but it always comes back and the pain can be every one of these places at once or just one. Is it just getting older? It's getting harder to deal with.

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PMR is mainly in the shoulders, neck, and hips, so it could be that you also have PMR. I made the mistake of thinking that my problems were just due to getting older, and I suffered quite a bit unnecessarily for about a year, plus I risked my vision. If you start feeling better from the prednisone fairly soon it would be a good sign that you have temporal arteritis and PMR. Maybe other people have experience with your symptoms such as hearing loss, tinnitus, etc.