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My quick take: If you and your husband aren’t comfortable with adding a statin while he’s...
a statin while he’s continuing to manage ... the GCA/PMR symptoms and prednisone ... lot already with him recovering from PMR ... and a stroke, and managing a prednisone ... had bad side effects that masked the PMR
Posted: May 26 11:02am
I concur, @stevieb. It appears that your call for evidence-based information along with fellow patient experiences...
minutes) (February 8, 2024) focuses on PMR ... It can have a wide range of symptoms ... We’ll review the typical presenting symptoms ... , helpful laboratory tests and its management
Posted: Apr 30 2:14pm
Welcome @victoriab, PMR can definitely cause havoc with symptoms and flares when you are tapering off...
some of the related discussions on managing ... PMR symptoms and tapering. ... search=pmr%20managing%20symptoms. ... into any lifestyle changes to help manage ... the PMR symptoms and tapering?
Hi @cgm, Sorry to hear you are experiencing severe foot pain. I had a bad case...
the first time I was diagnosed with PMR ... fairly fast and then I just had the PMR ... pain to manage. ... both feet which sounds more like a symptom
Discussion: Foot pain
Posted: May 27 10:31am
Hi @wv54, from what I've read, in Cecil and Goldman's Textbook of Medicine, PMR is an...
Goldman's Textbook of Medicine, PMR ... (About 30% of those with PMR develop ... My PMR started a couple of days after ... found that steroids could be used to manage ... the symptoms.
Yes, indeed it is a challenge. I tried to decrease my prednisone by 2.5 mg, going...
from 25 to 22.5 mg, but I had repeat symptoms ... for me during a previous episode of PMR ... to a good article from 2015 on the management ... of PMR and its by the American College
Welcome @gipsie, Sorry to hear that your PMR came out after the COVID booster last December....
Welcome @gipsie, Sorry to hear that your PMR ... following discussions helpful: -- PMR ... Dosages and Managing Symptoms: https ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-dosages
PMR since November 2021. Commenced Prednisolone at 15mg daily, now down to 7mg. PMR, which began...
PMR since November 2021. ... PMR, which began conventionally with ... My symptoms have always been completely ... beginnings of a similar descent of PMR ... I manage without painkillers - varied
Posted: Aug 26, 2022
Hi @kimberlynitz66, Welcome to Connect. Tapering off of prednisone for PMR can be very difficult and...
Tapering off of prednisone for PMR can ... Usually if my pain symptoms returned ... think you are still early in your PMR ... The first my PMR came out it took me ... Dosages and Managing Symptoms: https
Posted: Jul 28, 2022
Welcome @heatherkathlyn, I think we all struggle some when trying to taper off of prednisone. There...
. -- PMR Dosages and Managing Symptoms ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-dosages ... lifestyle changes to help with your PMR ... symptoms?
Posted: Jul 4, 2022
Hello @maureen158 and @kidolibrarian, Welcome to Connect. I think it's a great idea to report your...
's a great idea to report your symptoms ... the following discussion helpful -- PMR ... Dosages and Managing Symptoms: https ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-dosages
Hello @lestep, I would like to add my welcome to Connect along with @tillysam and others....
Tapering off prednisone while managing ... your PMR symptoms can be difficult ... #34;How do you taper prednisone for PMR ... remission is maintained." --- 2015 PMR ... www.rheumatology.org/Portals/0/Files/2015%20PMR
Posted: Mar 14, 2023
Had my first visit with my rheummy after being diagnosed in December. I see him anyway...
Continue with maintaining lifestyle management ... at the lowest dose I can tolerate symptoms ... 6p I was losing steam and feeling symptoms ... is my latest and greatest on this PMR
Hi @redboat, I told my rheumatologist there is nothing like the pain of PMR. I called...
there is nothing like the pain of PMR ... take tylenol (not NSAIDs) for pain management ... I wish you the best and hope your symptoms
I was on prednisone for 3 and half years the first time my PMR was diagnosed....
3 and half years the first time my PMR ... discussion you might find helpful: --- PMR ... Dosages and Managing Symptoms: https ... to tapering off of prednisone is to manage ... six months of my first round with PMR
Posted: Feb 15, 2023
Last year I suddenly developed debilitating and painful symptoms - later diagnosed as PMR- after my...
developed debilitating and painful symptoms ... - later diagnosed as PMR- after my ... Symptoms managed now with prednisone
I wouldn't think Genetech would care about the diagnosis as long as a doctor thinks Actemra...
prednisone isn't FDA approved for PMR ... worked or at least prednisone "managed ... the symptoms" of PMR. ... and the diagnosis being treated was PMR ... GCA, he thought it was likely that PMR
Welcome @diannepv1, So sorry to hear that the flu shot is causing so many problems for...
tapering down on prednisone: -- PMR ... Dosages and Managing Symptoms: https ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pmr-dosages ... been on prednisone since 2016 for PMR
I can’t tell you how thankful I am for this group. I’ve learned so much by...
Finally blood tests confirmed that I had PMR ... as I had all the classic symptoms. ... I’ve managed my weight, but the osteoporosis