I’m in Australia. Until last year I had not had PMR.
My first two vaccines were Astra Zenica, then in Feb of 2022, I had a Pfizer booster. Within 8 days I developed the symptoms of PMR. PMR was diagnosed about three weeks later. I started at 15mg Prednisolone but was hospitalised for tests due to escalating neck and jaw pain - symptoms of GCA and the dose was increased to 60mg which thankfully controlled the pain, but gave me the usual swag of Pred side effects. After a temporal artery ultrasound, CT and PET scans the medical team concluded it was probably not GCA. ( I had history of cervical joint issues but not this degree of pain) Pred was reduced quickly over 7 weeks to 12.0mg and then after dropped by 1mg/month. Early on I had some small amount of pain return with the drop but that disappeared after a few months. Thankfully I’m now down to 1mg. Fingers crossed for the finale!
I read of some research on rats with induced RA where Pred and Curcumin had been administered together producing better results than either taken separately so along with the recommended vitamins and minerals I took 2 Bio-Curcumin Turmeric 16,500 daily and mostly adhered to an anti-inflammatory diet. Don’t really know whether the Curcumin contributed or not to the smooth taper.
Now the new Omicron specific mRNA vaccine is available and my question is - should I take it or not?