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Has anyone experienced a fever with PMR?
My husband was diagnosed with PMR after 3 months of unrelenting shoulder and hip/thigh/buttocks pain following an emergency gallbladder surgery. He is 85. He had immediate relief from the 20mg of Prednisone prescribed.
During the 3 months after surgery he experienced fevers about every week to 10 days and last night had his first fever after starting Prednisone. Today he is fine and back to "normal". He is being treated by our family doctor who has seen about 10 cases of PMR during his career. He knows about the fevers and said it is one of the symptoms, but it concerns us. The wait for an appointment with a Rheumatologist is about 6 months if they indeed are even taking new patients.
Has anyone experienced fevers with PMR? If so, how long did they last?
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I had mild fevers every evening when PMR first started for me 2 years ago. Had to get a thorough evaluation by infectious disease doc to rule out infection before PMR diagnosis. They went away when I started on 20 mg prednisone. I’ve had 2 flares as I have been tapering off the prednisone and fevers returned during both of those. Doing well now - almost down to 2 mg. I think the fevers are definitely part of uncontrolled PMR for me.
@emrose what was your dosage of Prednisone with GCA? How long did it take you to start the tapering process?