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Think I have Giant Cell Arteritis (or GCA)

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 30 8:20pm | Replies (70)
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@SusanEllen66

Thank you! I’m very glad you are doing well.
Not one test, of any kind, has shown any evidence for GCA. Nothing. MRI, CT with contrast, blood work (no inflammation). Zero. So, hopefully a biopsy will help me feel less like I’m pretending or something…

I already have another form of Vasculitis. It’s a very rare one (30/1,000,000). Diagnosed with that in 2015.

So, yea me…I’m almost 73, and blessed every day!

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marilynredder2367 | @marilynredder2367 | Aug 3, 2022

I’m not making a little of GCA. when I originally had head pain and a ESR of 85 this was it. Went from Florida to Mayo in Minnesota. They couldn’t tell me anything else. Did the cat scan And found out I was allergic to the dye but nothing else showed up. It was difficult not having a diagnosis but I became accustomed to it.
Which other autoimmune disease do you have? I have PMR and Raynauds hence Florida instead of NJ.

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