Hi John, I am glad that I found this page and for your reply. To begin, I had a severe case of Lyme Meningitis years ago, so when PMR reared its ugly head, my wife and I thought we were dealing with Lyme. After about two months of trying to figure out what it was, I had to walk my daughter down the aisle to get married. My wife and I both went to see the doctor as my conditioned had worsened and the doxycycline was just making me sick. Still on the Lyme thing, we thought I may intravenous treatment again. After my daughter’s wedding, I went about 3 weeks before asking my wife to bring me to the hospital. There they gave me a spinal tap, did not feel it, to test to see if the Lyme had come back. My condition at that point was that I could barely stand, or walk, but had to go to the bathroom about every 20 minutes? Anyway, they had to roll me on a bed once in the hospital, and I loss a lot of muscle. A year and a half later, I have not fully gained my strength, and sometimes I am stronger that other times. Anyway, in the hospital they gave me pain med, intravenous for the Lyme, and 1000mg of prednisone- I later confirmed with my rheumatologist. When I came home, they taken me to 40 mg a day it took me about a month to see a rheumatologist, and then he kept me on the 40 and slowly weaned me down. Currently I am at 4 mg and struggling at times our goal is to keep me at 4 mg for about a month in the last eight months. I came down from about 11 or 12 milligrams, and it was a roller coaster ride. Every time I’ve made a change with the exception of of one to twice where it was easier. In addition, if I forget to take my medicine, it is like running into a Stonewall. My diet is pretty decent and I’m trying to stay away from things inflammatory I have a question for you is beer inflammatory? If so, I have tried to cut down a fair amount. finally I work for a pharma company as an IT generalist and hence was somewhat reluctant to talk about it publicly. I hope this answers some of your questions, I struggled to submit a Vaers report but did so yesterday. After I got better, not knowing, I took a third shot, Moderna. The only thing that happened here was I got a lot of breakout on my back side - bumps - pimple like, and they would break and bleed. It was not monkeypox, but I had to go see a doctor then Dermatologist who gave me medicine and it eventually went away - do I know if it was the third shot - not sure.