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A recent CT scan after an emergency admission to hospital was able to pick up potential...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1383113/
weeks later that cleared me of any GCA ... PET scan will pick up issues from GCA ... care only for the last 2 years, for PMR
Discussion: Aortic Aneurysms Caused By GCA
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Aug 31 3:15am
The answer is that you could be, but it is very confusing, as you said. If...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1385267/
But if the pain is from PMR inflammation ... If there is GCA/LVV with the PMR, then ... one of the primary inflammatories in PMR
Discussion: The lowest effective dose, how is it defined?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Sep 2 5:26pm
Sorry the prednisone and methotrexate has not worked for you. @dadcue has mentioned Actemra helped him...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1377941/
tried Actemra (Tocilizumab) to treat PMR ... FDA approved for GCA: https://connect.mayoclinic.org ... discussion/actemra-tocilizumab-to-treat-pmr
Discussion: Has anybody used lions mane for PMR?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Aug 24 6:50am
@isa22. I believe you will have to have that appt with the Rheum and/or the opthamologist...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1389788/
Rheum and/or the opthamologist for the GCA ... possible that you are simply feeling the PMR ... put out by the international body on PMR ... Good luck and I hope you do not have GCA
Discussion: I have PMR can tapering bring about GCA?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: 4 days ago
60mg was the dosage at onset for both GCA and PMR. With the GCA it was...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1391122/
60mg was the dosage at onset for both GCA ... and PMR. ... With the GCA it was gradually decreased ... PMR was decreased more rapidly with
Discussion: Does you doctor recommend splitting?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: 2 days ago
My DNA was always Northern European (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland) with my grandparents speaking those languages....
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1376576/
My rheumatologist handed me a PMR printed ... However, ten years before the PMR, my ... After 18 months of severe PMR I have ... developed GCA- Giant Cell Arteritis ... I'm in that small minority of PMR
Discussion: PMR appears in people with Commonalities, by chance?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Aug 22 9:56am
I have GCA and PMR. I got relief immediately from prednisone, but I started at 60...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1379042/
I have GCA and PMR. ... 10 mg is a low starting dose for PMR ... and or GCA. ... Since you have PMR, you should know ... also develop GCA, which is an illness
Discussion: Diagnosed PMR and immediate pain relief
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Aug 25 1:28pm
I’m just a patient relying on the doctors expertise. The original diagnosis was the GCA, and...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1384636/
The original diagnosis was the GCA, ... Then the GCA diagnosis a month later ... later, a total disabling flare of PMR ... fit her “cookie cutter “ image of GCA ... hematologist asked him if he had considered GCA
Discussion: Does you doctor recommend splitting?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Sep 1 9:04pm
I have some of that. I started getting treatment for GCA and PMR a little more...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1373613/
I started getting treatment for GCA ... and PMR a little more than a year ago ... but I had almost all of the other GCA ... a little "leakage" of the GCA
Discussion: Tender scalp ?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Aug 18 1:57pm
I think you are the first to report that you are taking Rinvoq for GCA since...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1387274/
report that you are taking Rinvoq for GCA ... was only recently FDA approved for GCA ... getting alternatives to Prednisone for PMR ... /GCA? ... prednisone as the only option for PMR
Discussion: FDA approves Rinvoq (Upadacitinib) for GCA
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Sep 5 10:02am
I just finished taking prednisone to treat GCA and PMR. I didn't have any headaches as...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1384241/
finished taking prednisone to treat GCA ... and PMR. ... insufficiency, blood pressure changes, or a PMR ... your doctor to make sure it isn't GCA ... Headaches are a common symptom of GCA
Discussion: Anyone experienced low-grade headaches as they ended the tapering?
Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
Posted: Sep 1 12:28pm