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PMR and the Dr. Gundry Lectin elimination Food Plan
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Mar 23 10:52am | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
@petermccarville
If you feel PMR is not tied to trauma I have to share my experience with you.
Last June I caught the back of my foot in the storm door and ripped open the back of my heel. It was a traumatic injury and I needed seven stitches. It was a difficult recovery with swelling and inflammation. During recovery I was feeling strangely weak and attributed it to my body’s energy going to the healing.
Also my flexibility was compromised and eventually couldn't get in and out of the car and had trouble getting up and down off the toilet. The injury was last week of June and was officially diagnosed with PMR last week of August (took 3 weeks for an appointment)! I already knew I had PMR before the diagnosis as my mother had it and knew the symptoms.
The genetic link is real.
I always wondered if I would get PMR as I saw how miserable she was and dreaded getting it. Thankfully we have new means of dealing with it today.
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@caroljeand
Stress and genetics both are connected to PMR in theory but it's difficult to prove at this time.
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@caroljeand Thanks for the story and the connection to trauma. I think I need to clarify what I meant by trauma. When one gets a sprain of the ankle. An actual traumatic event like a fall or a misstep in which the ankle overly bends. That is a trauma and inflammation starts in that area of the damage. That kind of inflammation is what I meant when I referred to "healthy" or warranted inflammation. It is inflammation that is necessary to heal a wound (a trauma). On the contrary, I had shoulder and hip inflammation during my PMR experience but I never had a trauma to those areas. I do agree with you that trauma can trigger PMR and that trauma can be both a physical and psychological types of trauma. Many people in this chat room have spoken about being in an enormous stressful event(s) prior to PMR. Others have had accidents (traumas) that have brought on PMR in their opinion. An others have spoken about illnesses or vaccinations or operations that have been followed by PMR. I don't doubt them that PMR and those events have a relationship/connection. Inflammation in the right amount and in the right place(s) is a good thing. Given that, I do not see any reason for PMR inflammation! Great discussion. Yes, the genetic link is real too. I am just speaking to one of my many many cousins who is 58 and newly diagnosed. Out of 7 aunts and uncles (I have) we know of atleast 5 that had it. Many of the children (over 30 of them) of those 7 are starting to get it of late.