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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 2 days ago | Replies (185)

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Some days I can hardly roll out of bed, but I'm lucky that my community offers water aerobics which has helped a lot. I can't walk because I'm nervous about my legs giving out, but I can do almost everything in the water. I've been trying to get off Prednisone and down to 1 mg., but my hips, shoulders and neck are very painful and sleeping at night is difficult with the pain. I wake often and last night my husband told me I was moaning. I take way too much Ibuprofen and I'm worrying about having kidney problems. I can tolerate the days, but the nights are bad. I really don't want to go back on more Prednisone and keep thinking I can put up with the pain. I see the Rheumatologist next week so we shall see what my numbers look like. These last 3 1/2 years have been troubling.

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I am having same issues. After 3 years finished with Prednisone. I don’t want to go back on unless blood tests force me to. Celebrex helps but do t want to take every night and wind up with other issues. Nightmare.

I struggle with wondering why we are all so setermined to get off prednisone as quickly as possible. Surely the pain you are having indicates the high degree of inflammation in parts of your body and the effects of the inflammation may be as bad as the side effects of prednisone. So troubling.