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Taking prednisone dose, morning and evening
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 26, 2023 | Replies (5)Comment receiving replies
Deb, @milld835 your back pain may be nerve pain which would be different than pain from inflammation which is what the steroids help with. Talk with your PCP about possibly getting tests to determine root cause of back pain. I am having problems with doctors wanting to assign all my pain to PMR, what I call "piling on". I have had to be a strong advocate for myself over this, in the end I did have other causes for some of my pain. All were successfully separately treated and never would have responded to steroids.
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Yes. I agree and I've also become my own advocate at this point. It could possibly a recurrence of a herinated disc from a couple of years ago. I don't have a PCP or GP (mine retired). On a waitlist for a family doc. I just thought that the Prednisone would help any inflammation, i.e. disc in this case. I don't think this is PMR, so I've been trying to take Ibuprofen/Tylenol together which, in the past, has work for this pain. It does help somewhat. Thanks for your help; much appreciated.