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@tsc wow - that is classic !! I also told someone - "remember what Bill Murray looks like on the zillionth day of waking up in Ground Hog Day ? " @johnbishop -this is a great reference for all to see:
“An Impediment to Living Life”: Why and How Should We Measure Stiffness in Polymyalgia Rheumatica?
Sarah Louise Mackie, first author - all from Great Britain.

I guess jumpers are pajamas ? NO reference to Ground Hog Day from the participants !

"'I probably just started off with a general sort of ache, a stiffness. Um because I always used to go to quite a lot of classes, sort of aerobics and things, and when I came back I wasn’t sort of recovering quite as well. You know, I always ached a bit when I came back, but I was aching a lot more, really stiff. Um and I just thought, “Oh it’s me age, I’ll just sort of work through it.” But then sort of like three months on, like you, it was sort of in bed and just—just agony, just really stiff, I couldn’t sort of get me jumpers on or anything without help.” [L/1/F/88-97]""

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“An Impediment to Living Life”: Why and How Should We Measure Stiffness in Polymyalgia Rheumatica?: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425533/

I think jumpers are sweaters, @nyxgirl, if I recall correctly from reading Babara Pym novels. I used to stretch for 40 minutes in the morning, hoping it would help me get out of bed. It didn't. Then I walked for a good hour in the mornings, but the back of my knees stayed stiff. My neck was so sore and stiff I wanted to go to a chiropractor, but I was scared that any manipulation would break my neck! And my morning stiffness lasted all day. I felt a little better in the evenings, breathed a sigh of relief, and thought I was getting better, but every morning proved me wrong.
Oh, the joys of PMR! What nonsufferer could ever understand it?

Before I was diagnosed I asked my sister and my friend who exercise a lot if they were sore for 3 days after exercising like I was. They both laughed at me and said I needed to exercise more often. Jokes on them! PMR was the culprit! Now I can exercise without feeling miserable.