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PMR Dosages and Managing Symptoms

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 1 1:21pm | Replies (445)
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@flymetothemoon

What she means is as long as blood tests are normal her goal is to get me off the steroids. Of course regardless of blood tests if pain becomes unbearable I will have no choice, however for now it’s not. The Celebrex is helping. The steroids cause other issues for me due to type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis.

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kmeikle1 | @kmeikle1 | Aug 23, 2022

@flymetothemoon It's hard to argue with success since you're at 1/2 mg., and since you are so low this probably doesn't apply to you. But for those of us taking more prednisone, our blood tests may seem normal because the prednisone itself reduces inflammation. For 20% of us (me included) our blood work was and is normal. No elevated CRP or ESR. So PMR is not always reflected in blood work. Our symptoms and our response to prednisone is how we are diagnosed and treated.

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