Anyone diagnosed with PMR after the Pfizer vaccine?

Here is a typical day:
Breakfast: homemade oat granola with walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, ginger, and gogi berries--no added oil, but I do add a little organic maple syrup before baking it lightly. (don't bake the goji berries). Then I top with berries--usually organic blueberries. I use Silk unsweeetened soy milk. Note that the cereal isle in the grocery store is really the dessert isle--highly processed with a lot of sugar. And dairy milk is really best for calves--not humans.

Lunch: either leftovers from dinner or a slice of organic whole wheat bread that contains walnuts and cranberries. I toast it and add some organic grass-fed soft butter that is mixed with avocado oil. Plus a piece of fruit--orange or banana, and maybe a hard-boiled free-range, cage-free egg. Or sometimes I will eat nut crackers with organic tumeric hummus. Note that I normally avoid most breads, especially white bread, or any processed food.

Dinner: Before dinner I drink a green smoothie made with organic greens, raw beet, avocado and green juice that is not highly sweet. This is because I am not a fan of these foods and it is easier to drink them than eat them. If you choose to eat a salad, use only a little olive oil (vinegar is fine). All other oils should be avoided, except for avocado oil.
Microwaved sweet potato, cruciferous vegetable, and a small portion of organic, naturally raised meat, poultry, or fish. Wild salmon is high in omega-3's. If I have dessert, it is usually berry pie with most of the crust removed or some fruit topped with unsweetened grass-fed yogurt. This is normally the only dairy I consume because it at least offers you some probiotics, which are essential to gut health and your overall health in general. 70% of your immunity starts in your gut! Note that your gut microbes eat fiber, so eat all your food whole.

Supplements: Omega-3's twice a day, turmeric with black pepper twice a day, and Vitamin D when I'm not out in the sun,
Hope this helps.

Yes. First Pfizer vax May 2021. Pain in neck and shoulders all that summer. I bought several pillows, thinking that was the problem. It was not. Second Pfizer vax August 4, 2021. Went on a little car trip with family on August 14th. After the first night at the motel, woke up unable to move. Still thinking it was either the bed or the pillows, in so much pain got into the tub and was unable to get out. I had to get my daughter to help me. It escalated from there, to carpal tunnel-like symptoms in my right hand. It kept going numb from thumb right around to middle finger (which has never lost the stiffness completely). Was wearing a carpel tunnel splint, so I could use the computer mouse (working from home). Family doc (who has since retired) poo-pooed it as "old age stiffness". Eventually, I could do not even the smallest thing. Had to take unpaid sick leave from work. Went to a Chiropractor, physio. Nothing was working. Could barely sit on the toilet and had to get a riser seat; could not reach around to clean. Did some research. Asked the Chiro if he thought it could be PMR or RA. He didn't think so. Finally my pharmacist suggested I get blood work done to test for RA. I convinced the GP for the bloods and CRP was up to 42 (which he did NOT notice). He finally in December 2021 urgently referred me to a Neurologist, who diagnosed PMR (Jan. 2022) and put me on 20 mg Prednisone. Immediate relief. Recently (Jan. 2023) I had a GCA scare and put up to 60 mg. Prednisone. Had TA biopsy done, which appeared to be negative, although the Prednisone could be "helping" that. Ophtamology says eyes are good.Right now I'm dealing with extreme, extreme fatigue, exhaustion, weakness and sweats, sleeping for 2 hours in the afternoons after a brief walk around a store; waiting for blood work results for Glucose (never a problem in the past) and of course SED and CRP. I now have no GP and the unreachable Rheumatologist. Prior to the vax in May 2021, health problems were NIL. There are many with the same or similar stories.

Hi, forgive me but I feel your experience as mine has been somewhat similar. I retired from Pfizer in 2019 after 20 years as an IT generalist. That said, they were very good to me hence I was not that quick to think it was the vaccine. I had two shots March of 21 and of course I wanted Pfizer. In April I thought that a severe case of Lyme returned. I had pain on shoulders, arms, all the way down to my hips. In May we were realizing that the doxycycline was doing nothing. To be honest, it never did as I had to have antibiotics intravenously several times in order to clear it from my spine.
Around early May my doctor gave me some prednisone and immediately I felt better. About a week before my daughter’s wedding I was feeling the same and the doctor gave me another script of prednisone which helped me through the wedding. A long story short, I went to the emergency room a few weeks later and I could barely walk. There they gave me a spinal tap to make sure it was not Lyme. I was in so much pain, that I did not even feel the spinal tap. In the hospital they gave me a 1000mg of prednisone a day - and when I left I was told to see a rheumatologist and to take 40 mg until I saw him. It has been almost two years, and I am down to 3 mg. The last year I have dropped one mg at a time, and twice I had to go back to the higher dose. The good news is I am slowly getting better, and the issues you described are spot on. Everything from sweats, to chronic fatigue I have experienced. One other thing I have experienced has been weakness - sometimes I feel like I have no strength, and then other times it comes back. I pray you get well, and I hope this has helped you.

There is no way I am ever having another vaccine, my one Pfizer booster has reduced me to a frail person with heart rhythm problems and this awful PMR pain. I was ok before.