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Thank you for sharing your experiences with PMR. And really sorry you’ve had to cope with this for so long, but as you said there don’t seem to be other options. Since you feel strongly the vaccine was responsible, I’d be curious to know if you have or had an underlying auto immune issue, such as Hashimotos thyroidisis? I too can correlate my symptoms with the shingrix vaccine last summer. But my physicians say there is no connection. As you may have read in other posts, there are several individuals who have a vaccine connection to this malady.
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Hi Karinaph, I am sorry to hear the vaccine may have caused your PMR, you know your own body better than anyone, you should trust your instincts.
I did not and do not have any underlying auto immune issues. I was an extremely healthy physically active 44 year old, got the flu shot and the next day I could not get out of bed. Every physician in the HMO I belong to, has sworn the flu vaccine could not cause PMR. So I continued to get the vaccine... from 2003 to 2014 I had relapses of PMR at least 4 times. I just thought it was a normal thing. Then in 2014 I got the flu vaccine and within hours my blood pressure went sky high, I could barely make it back to the car from a short hike with a friend. Then I positively knew it was the vaccine. It was/is the worst case of PMR that I had ever had. I've been dealing with it ever since. The very small dose of prednisone I take keeps me functioning without the side effects of the larger doses. I'm hoping someday the PMR will go away 🙂 In addition, my younger sister has PMR... she got it from the 2014 flu vaccine as well. AND my mother had the same PMR symptoms, they started when she turned 50 and started getting flu vaccinations. I'm not an anti vaxxer.... I believe everyone should have a choice whether or not they want to be vaccinated. For my health, I will choose no vaccines in the future. No flu, no shingles, no COVID..... nada.