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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Feb 13 10:20am | Replies (55)

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@tuckerp I was dx’d PMR in Nov. ‘25. I’m 68. I have to ask, how you are doing now. Almost the same story as yours. Other than the two weeks of barely being able to get out of bed, I haven’t slowed or changed my workout routine. Two days into Prednisone I felt great again, so I didn’t reduce or change my workouts 1-1/2 to 2 hours a day (mornings.) half of that is treadmill occasionally running, followed by serious stretching. I’m on the same Mediterranean-like diet that I’ve been on for 4 years.
I’m at ten weeks taking Prednisone from 40mg/day to now 15mg/day.
How are you doing now?

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@stonewheel glad your keeping moving. I still go to the gym every morning. Same workout. Trying to hold my strength and form the best I can. I will be 74 in June. I started testosterone about 2 years ago and that has helped my overall physical health. My wife passed 1 year ago after 51yrs of marriage. That has been huge. Exercise has kept my sanity. In my PMR journey I found that 10mg was my comfort spot. I tried about once a month to move lower and could not. At 5 months I started to taper and had no issues. I tapered off over the next month rather quickly. It took about 6 months to feel better. Fatigue was my worse thing. Thats when I started the testosterone. At about 9-10 months I had what I thought was the start of PMR again. I took a 5 day pack of prednisone and it was gone. I had another about 3 months later and did the same. That was in 2022. I have not had a flare again. I take a daily BP pill now and I have genetic cholesterol issues. I take a twice monthly injection of repatha. Just found out I need a hip replacement. Dr credits the fact that its not crippling pain to the fact I keep it moving every day. A lot has happened since I turned 68. I hope to slow the train down. Keep up the good work.