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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 37 minutes ago | Replies (64)
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@gmdb Interesting! (And I'm sorry for your pain.) I had the flu vaccine, the COVID vaccine a week or two later, then came down with a chest cold/cough that was pretty intense for a month, immediately followed by PMR. I'm N.Euro descended, and "of a certain age" (i.e. >60). That seems like the mix to trigger it, if pre-disposed, as you say.
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@kereno Yes, sounds like you a very good example. In my case it was a persistent low level sinus infection, age, genetics and flu vaccine. But not everybody with these factors will get, so other things come in to play that they don't understand. I did read somewhere that older people in Norway have the highest rate of PMR at 40%, so while underlying genetics seem to be important not everybody with those genes gets PMR.