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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Apr 20 6:43pm | Replies (16)
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I've only been on 5 mg of Prednisone for a few days. It doesn't mean I'm not in pain, especially in the mornings. I'm very sore and some mornings I can hardly get out of the chair. I know that this is not over for me and that I'll have flare ups again. I go in for blood tests again soon. This all came about because of an infection I had back in January and shortly after I was diagnosed with PMR. I can only hope that it won't become chronic. I can honestly say I have never experienced, in my life, the kind of pain I get when in a flare-up.
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I guess it comes down to what you think of as chronic. Median time with PMR is close to 6 years, although 20% recover within 2 years.
If your current dose of 5 mg is enough to clear the current level of PMR inflammation so that your pain doesn't start increasing - from a build-up of PMR inflammation - you should be fine. If it isn't enough you should know about it from the pain levels within a week or so.
But there will always be some pain and stiffness - usually in the morning. The only time I was ever pain free was when the inflammation escalated in the hip girdle and thigh muscles to the extent I couldn't walk. I spent the day in hospital where they decided to give me 30 mg injection of steroids. Pain was gone in 2 hours and I was walking normally. They put me on 30 mg oral steroids for 3 days after that and the pain and stiffness stayed away during that period.