My pain started 20 days after a cardiologist quadrupled my statin dose. I stopped the statin thinking it would subside in a week or so. After 6 months my PCP suspected the statins had triggered PMR and after checking my sed rate, etc started me on 15 mg prednisone. In three days I was and have remained pain free as we slowly taper. ( down to 4mg).
My PCP is great but unfortunately he will be retiring in 6 months.
There is a shortage of Internists because of poor reimbursement rates and increased documentation required to satisfy insurance companies to get paid. My internist said he didn’t go to school to spend more time with documentation than the time he can treat patients