I hope that you get the care that you need very soon! I'm just 52 and the symptoms of PMR for me (just a couple of months ago) were initially very jarring, needed help out of bed, mobility was poor, pain was often unbearable, particularly in the mornings. This forum has definitely helped me understand what I'm up against, and that it's different in some ways for everyone. At the moment, I've been symptom-free for about a month, but I was in a very different place a month ago. But once my rheumatologist got me on the correct dosage of prednisone (guessed too low initially, for the first 2 weeks), it's been very good, almost a different world. I've been advised to start tapering my dosage tomorrow, so hopefully by early next year, I'll be off the prednisone completely. I'll just have to hope that it all works out and, if it doesn't, I'll just have to try something else and hope that that works instead.