@lagpmr2024
Hello and welcome to the PMR forum!
I’m 75 years old and on my second flare of PMR in 2 years. Conditions that existed before my PMR started are asthma, diabetes and reactive arthritis. I’m currently tapered down to 5mg of prednisone.
I have never stopped taking my yearly flu vaccine. I don’t have any reaction other then soreness at the injection site. At the beginning of Covid I took the one shot j and j vaccine. I did eventually have a booster about a year later. I took care of my husband and daughter when they were sick with Covid that first year and I never got sick. I have had a few bouts of bronchitis but have never tested positive for covid! So I’m what they call a Novid—a person who has never had Covid. This year I turned down the Covid vaccine because I had a bad case of bronchitis that lasted almost 3 months until they finally cultured my sputum and got me on the right antibiotic! And I was also tested for Covid during this time and it was another negative result. So it is my personal choice not to do the Covid booster but I have done all my other vaccines, including shingles, with no affect on my PMR.
Best of wishes during your health journey.