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PMR symptoms drastically improved during COVID/Omnicron infection.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 30 8:20am | Replies (38)
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@girastancil

Hi, I have pmr and significant muscle aches and pains. Recently, after contracting covid and using the oral antiviral medication, Paxlovid, my pain have greatly decreased. Covid symptoms are very similiar to a nasty head cold. My pmr only began about 4 months ago and I have had covid vaccines as well as boosters.
The question to ask, did the vaccinations and boosters start the pmr and did the case of covid, and use of paxlovid, reduce the symptoms?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jul 23, 2022

Such an intriguing situation and good questions for research to help answer, @girastancil. Did the vaccinations trigger a PMR flare? Did COVID and/or Paxlovid help ameliorate PMR symptoms?

I moved your message to this existing discussion where @marymv also experienced an improvement in PMR symptoms with COVID.

You may also be interested in these related discussions:
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR), prednisone and Coronavirus COVID-19: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/coronavirus-and-pmr/
- COVID Booster, Prednisone and PMR: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-booster/

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