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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.
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I was diagnosed with PMR after the shingles shot. The fact that no one wants to discuss that AND that now the shingles vaccine is given in multiple doses spaced apart AND made by a different company says a lot. PMR and injection site redness/swelling were listed as the only two possible side effects - yet no doctor wants to discuss that perhaps PMR is a result of the old shingles vaccine.
I, too, was diagnosed at what doctors called an early age as I was 55 at the time. Because the doctors says I didn’t have GCA ( even though my vision changed dramatically and I had to have cataract surgery ) I decided to stop the prednisone, go to a chiropractor for neck and shoulder pain, do PT to strengthen my shoulders and SWEAT by exercising, walking etc. all those things have kept me off the steroids!!!
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Hi Itta, very interesting, and so sorry for those in your family too. I think the #’s of people getting this should be a research focus. As the MD ( on this site) who first mentioned the caution from researchers last fall in Ohio, it appears this is acknowledged in the scientific community but our FDA perhaps is doing a risk analysis, which I get but inform us so we can assess the risks. He mentioned the adjuvant which helps activate our immune response being a possible source of our reaction, and btw his too. I’d love to get this information to some researchers out there to do the clinical study and look at those who have reacted by getting PMR.