I started prednisone and the pain subsided within 6 hours. I also has my inflammatory markers, crp and esr chrcked. My crp was 87 ( normal is less than 8) and esr was 68 ( normal less than 30). So now the problem is to figure out what the massive inflammation is from. When rechecked, crp was down to 14 and esr normal. My pet-ct was good. Nothing showed up.

And to add to that, I'm anemic. I had an iron infusion last month and my iron is normal. But I'm still anemic. Again, no idea why. I'm seeing a rheumatologist Thursday.

The frustration is that I finished all treatment in August and this is all new.