Hi @maija, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. You mentioned you recently started having extreme pain in arms, shoulders and neck and that you are currently on 6 mg prednisone. It sounds like the current dosage of prednisone is not helping with the PMR unless you have something else going on. Have you discussed the recent pain symptoms with your rheumatologist or doctor?

My PMR is in remission but with both occurrences when the PMR was active I was started on 20 mg of prednisone and tapered off from there. First time took me 3 years to taper off. Second time took me 1-1/2 years to taper off. I still live with some minor aches and pains which may be part of the PMR.