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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 13 8:45am | Replies (163)Comment receiving replies
@tatiana987 Treating PMR is normally months to years. At high doses of prednisone tapering can be somewhat rapid, below 10mg per day it normally takes weeks to months to titrate down. I personally have never heard of a pain management specialist treating PMR. It is normally in the wheelhouse of a PCP or Rheumy. it is chronic and can return at any time. This is true with all auto-immune problems. Auto-immune problems are not normally pain management candidates, they are inflammation based and many are degenerative. They are your body fighting itself.
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@jabrown0407 My African doctor was a rheumatoligist, Western educated, but I don’t know where.
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I have never heard of a pain management doctor caring for PMR either. As a matter of fact I go to my pain doctor for another issue and he said he does not treat inflammation Ra related. I was prescribed Rinvoq and it was making me feel worse. After three months on it I went to a different doctor and was told rinvoq does not treat PMR. It will treat GCA which I have both. I was a healthy 60 year old back in Covid days but after I got the covid vaccine I been going down hill . Extremely high inflammation markers and vertigo.
So anyone who is prescribed rinvoq for PMR ask your doctor because my second doctor said no it does not treat PMR.
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@jabrown0407 Who knows whether I was diagnosed correctly. Whatever I had is gone. Thank goodness.