Your experience was better than mine when I was diagnosed with PMR. My first rheumatologist was sure it was something else that wasn't treated with prednisone. I waited 6 months while I insisted that I needed prednisone. I didn't do my research because I didn't know anything about PMR until it was diagnosed. That was when prednisone was formally prescribed. Until then a sympathetic GP occasionally prescribed small amounts of prednisone to me.

I acquired other things that went wrong after taking prednisone for 12 years. I finally tapered off prednisone about 5 years ago. Everything has improved since then.