I'm kinda slow and skeptical and my memory not that great either about the genesis of my ailment. First of all it took quite a lot of testing before I was diagnosed and then with something I'd never heard of (after Covid another recent sickness sprung on us out of the blue) I felt it was just a catchall for a myriad of complaints. Bloodwork was the clincher apparently too many white blood cells and inflammation. Wallah! PMR! But I always hear of joints being affected which I do not experience but painful muscles I certainly had before prednisone. But what I suffer most from is tight muscles in my limbs. They've shrunken from when I was totally laid up but now they are as hard as rocks and woefully impede my flexibility and this is my major beef and nobody else seems to have this problem. It must be an auto-immune disease symptom because like any other sickness one usually starts feeling a little progress but with this it has not given an inch. The doctors are puzzled.