@becsbuddy I am adding my story to this thread.
I was diagnosed with PMR back in January, after requesting a referral to a rheumatologist for lingering pain in my hips and shoulders after multiple cervical fusion surgeries in July and then September.
I believe PMR is caused from stress, just my opinion.
Because I have osteopenia, I was only given 12 mg. Of methylprednisolone , then reduced to the current 8 mg.
I had a day away of driving a couple hours to watch our grandchildren play soccer, and started feeling bad. This gradually became worse, until I had unbearable pain that moved to a different place in my lower back, first the left side, then the right side, down the back of my thighs, with numbness and pain into my feet. I couldn’t walk, without my walker.
An MRI of lumbar spine showed nothing. I requested a ct scan of my sacrum because I asked AI for an opinion after putting in my symptoms, it showed I had a bilateral fracture of my sacrum, (also showed a previous fracture of my pelvis that had healed!).
There is little that can be done for this, only rest until it heals.
I am starting on a biologic med next week. I am praying that it works and I can get off my walker!