← Return to Medications for Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)

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@charann2000

Hi everyone, I am going to throw something out there that just recently occurred with me and my possible Temporal Arteritis. I mentioned in my last post about one month ago that I seemed to be a remissive state for three or four week....it actually lasted a total of almost six weeks. However, I did not mention that since meeting with my Nose, Throat, Ear, Eye Specialist, this past April, I have been taking prescription strength Flonase once a day two sprits in each nostril and on occasion when I was experiencing extreme temporal pain radiating behind my eye, OTC Excedrin Migraine caplets two at one time once or twice a day. Well, after such a let up of symptoms, I stopped using the Prescription Strength Flonase and the OTC Excedrin Migraine caplets and within a week to ten days, I began to feel the symptoms beginning to gradually come back of Temporal Arteritis....which was very upsetting. I thought about it and thought it may be due to the fact that I stopped cold blank taking the Prescription Strength Flonase. (I had initially thought that I had a sinus situation, particularly on the left nostril but the doctor said if it is in the left temple as well as behind the left eye, it most likely was Temporal Arteritis.) I also began taking the OTC Excedrin Migraine Caplets which have caffeine on my own. Now after several days of going back on both the Flonase and occasionally taking the OTC Excedrin Migraine Caplets, I am feeling completely better. Just wanted to share this with everyone for what it is worth, but to me it was of great benefit.

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Interesting for sure .

@charann2000 - Hi it is Tinkerbell - The only thing I am worried about is that the medicine is covering up your symptoms. Have you had another Sed Rate? I sure hope you don’t have GCA.

Hi Tinkerbell, I really don't think they are masking the symptoms, but I could be entirely wrong. Forgot to mention another interesting diagnostic tool, my Ear, Nose, Throat Specialist/Surgeon who originally mentioned that my symptoms sound like Temporal Arteitis said at a follow up visit three weeks ago, said that if I had Temporal Arteitis I would experience discomfort and tenderness each and every time I touched my left temple. When he said that to me, I immediately placed my hand on my left temple area and felt no discomfort whatsoever. Then he suggested I see another RA Specialist who really deals regularly with Temporal Arteritis and if he cannot come up with a defnitive Temporal Arteritis diagnosis to then see a Neurologist. To answer your question regarding having had another sedimentation test done, the answer is no not since I self-admitted myself through the ER in April of this year. I expect in August when I go to another RA Specialist he will request that and several other blood tests regarding RA again be done....that would be about four months since the last full blood panel done at the ER.