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Adjusting to life with temporal arteritis

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jan 13 9:52am | Replies (217)
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Hi @MLeeB. It's great to hear from you again! I merged your question into an existing thread you started back in March. @donnalc, @lindy, @prednisone4gca and @crhp194, do you have any suggestions for @MLeeB on how to manage temporal arteritis?

@MLeeB, what progress have you had (if any) since your last post on Connect?

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crhp194 | @crhp194 | Sep 13, 2016

I have aortic giant cell arteritis. It can be cured with a combination of prednisone and methotrexate according to Mayo. The prednisone is for the inflammation and the methotrexate is for the auto-immune disease of giant cell. Apparently it takes about a year. Women seem to be more prone to auto-immune diseases. In addition to giant cell, there are many other auto-immune diseases such as psoriasis. I do have psoriasis. There's a web site about auto-immune diseases which I think is arrda.org which lists many of these auto immune diseases.

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