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Medications for Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jul 7 8:52am | Replies (353)Comment receiving replies
Just wanted to let everyone know that I have not dropped the face of the earth yet....I have what appears to be a remission of symptoms for the past eight days with no treatment....I am enjoying being pain free for the time being but am wondering to myself if anyone else has experienced such an occurrence?
I am still going to see my Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat Specialist this coming Tuesday and have an appointment with a different RA Specialist for August 22nd (the earliest I could get in to see this one). So will look forward to discussing this remission of symptoms. and request for an extensive eye exam and temporal artery biopsy....I don't know if this ever goes away completely on it's own. I also realized that I had a treatment of AMOX-CLAV 875-125 MG for TABLET (a strong antibiotic which I never had before) for ten days just one week or two prior to the onset of the initial symptoms back during the end of January and the beginning of February and wonder if this could have been the trigger for my Temporal Arteritis then and if it may be weaning out of my system finally? Lots of questions, but so thankful right now for the let up of symptoms presently.
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Thanks....sorry that I did not have anything to say for a while but all was relatively calm until one week ago when I gashed my leg into the side of the fireplace hearth and had to have 12 sutures sewn into it at the ER. But aside from that Tinkerbell, have you ever heard of Temporal Arteritis going into remission or just disappearing on its own for about 8 or 10 days now without taking anything whatsoever?
@charann2000 - I have not heard of anything like that. Sorry to hear about your leg and stitches. It would be so wonderful if you don’t have GCA. Not a disease that any of us want. It would be interesting to see what your Sed Rate is now. Hopefully, it will be way down. Keep us posted.
I just went thru same thing. No pain for alst three weeks. No change in meds. I had a terrible fall direct on my back. I am happy for no pain. BUT, yesterdayit all came back. Now my back pain is park of it. My back Dr said I could take tylonol and ibuprofen at same time
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@charann2000 - I have been wondering how you have been doing. I knew you had an appointment coming up next week. Maybe your Sed Rate will be down. It would be nice if you did not have to go through with the biopsy. It would be great if all your symptoms go away.