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PMR appears in people with Commonalities, by chance?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 25 3:29pm | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
I have some gut issues now, and I've had worse ones in the past. I don't know if they contributed to my GCA and PMR. I've had hypothyroidism for about 20 years. About 10 years ago, I developed SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I think it developed due to low stomach acid caused by the hypothyroidism and also age. I was pretty miserable for a while. I never got medical treatment for it. I found the FODMAP information online, and used food elimination to eventually cure the SIBO. I still have IBS left over from that time. I can control it pretty well with diet.
PMR and GCA are probably due to different events that accumulate over time, and something eventually tips us over into sickness.
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Diet is tremendously powerful. I’ve simplified my diet a lot to anti-inflammatory choices. Wishes come and go—I just at them away like gnats. Just impressions or memories that have nothing to do with the reality of the present. Everything we do either feeds a habit or helps to weaken a habit.
Hypothyroidism? I forgot about that one! Golly, it’s been 15 20 years for that one. I taken low doses of levothyroxine all these years. I wonder IT does to my body?!