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I receive both Flu vaccine and Covid vaccine 11/13/24

Within a few days I was in tremendous pain in both shoulders, both hips mainly but also wrists, knuckles, backs of legs. I felt like something was attacking me. I was 70 yrs old at the time and it was absolutely horrible. Doctors got sidetracked by a positive Lymes test (but not an active case). I finally got Prednisone after about 10 weeks. I did not connect the onset with vaccine until I read about possible connections to vaccinations and then it made perfect sense. The disease was so unlike anything I had ever felt before. I am pretty upset about it... just hoping the Prednisone does not cause anything bad and hoping it will not come back when I go off it.

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@jimgould I'm curious, if you had a positive Lyme Disease test did they Rx doxycycline? If so did it help at all? I needed doxy for a respiratory problem recently and it seemed to help with some systemic problems that I had attributed to my PMR. It took a year for my PMR to be Dx and I resisted treatments because of the side effects for an extended time. I finally took steroids, but only at 10mg and was off in 6 months. My case of PMR started with an adverse reaction to Shringrix vaccination.