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Medications for Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 14 hours ago | Replies (375)
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Hi @kmn1957, Cecil and Goldman's textbook of medicine, Chapter on PMR/GCA advises that Prednisone, when prescribed in the proper dosage (15 - 20 mg for suspected PMR) should result in a "dramatic clinical response" and if it doesn't, the physician should consider other disorders - infection, malignancy, connective tissue disorder, hypothyriodism.

GCA requires a higher dosage of prednisone. I started at 40 mg daily (I'm a small person).

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kmn1957 | @kmn1957 | 2 days ago

Thanks for responding. I have more energy, the chronic fatigue isn't near as bad. The artery still looks swollen but no pain in the area. Still had 2 migraines over the weekend that involved the temple area but not just there. It eventually went all over my head. So maybe this isn't temporal arteritis and it's something else. My c- reactive protein was high and same time list year it was high but I suppose it could be just general inflammation from something.

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