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Any difficulty in diagnosis of PMR?

Posted by crisco50 @crisco50, May 4, 2023

In my research I have noticed that many of the symptoms of PMR share many common symptoms of other diseases. For those of you already diagnosed, what was the length of time that it took to get a diagnosis?
I also read that markers in blood tests are almost normal in some cases & therefore not helpful in finding a diagnosis. Have any of you faced this obstacle in getting a diagnosis?
What was the symptom or condition that finally led to a diagnosis of PMR?

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Teri | @tsc | Jul 1, 2023
In reply to @ripley "I went to a new DO dr yesterday with bad muscle pain because my PC Dr..." + (show)
@ripley

I went to a new DO dr yesterday with bad muscle pain because my PC Dr was booked up for 4 days. Told her I've been in pain for 6 weeks and asked for blood work for inflammation, Lymes, etc. I had the tests done last year and they were negative. She refused to run the tests again because she said I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia last year so there was no point in repeating blood work. She finally agreed to do SED rate and C Reactive Protein tests, which came back normal. So it looks like I don't have PMR. She told me to go back to my PC Dr for treatment for fibro. I'm going to a pain clinic in two weeks and hoping they can help me.

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Hi @ripley, Were you ever prescribed a trial course of prednisone to see if it helped with the pain? That is a recommended course to see if Its PMR when the blood tests are normal. If pain and other symptoms are alleviated by prednisone, it's likely PMR. If not, it could be infection, malignancy,connective tissue disorder or hypothyroidism (Cecil and Goldman's Textbook of Medicine). Maybe you can propose that to your doctors.

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