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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 16 hours ago | Replies (22)
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I think you’ve hit the mark here. I was lucky to only get this at 72 but my son developed Tyoe 1 diabetes, also higher in Scandinavia, when he was 28. No family history of the particular disease. My daughter at 52 has just discovered by accident that she has another thing that is not quite called an autoimmune disease but is related. It only has letters iGg4. So autoimmune disease tendency is probably the better way to look at it.
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@cazwell50 I had never connected PMR with Type 1 diabetes. I believe my mother and her mother had PMR (called bursitis back in the day). My brother and my nephew's son both have Type I diabetes which manifested at puberty onset. Very interesting.
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Interesting about iGg4. I have never heard of it.
What I have heard before is the following:
"These patients usually have a good recovery after being treated with systemic glucocorticosteroids. The response to steroids is so dramatic that it is has been suggested as one diagnostic criterion for the disease."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499825/