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Yes, I split the dose too. Started on 15mg prednisolone in May last year and had...
May last year and had 70% morning pain ... After finding out that PMR inflammation ... prednisone in the evening for full pain ... There was no morning pain with the split ... So I put the evening dose back to 2mg
Discussion: Splitting the dose
Posted: Jan 10, 2024
@raven1955. I’m into my second month of having tapered completely off prednisone. I fully expected to...
If the pain does not get worse, but ... know it’s a part of the process of PMR ... I’m very gradually getting back to ‘ ... me’ and compared to the pain and stiffness
Discussion: PMR Taper and pain
Posted: Jan 9, 2024
I am so sorry that you are in so much pain. I have had Covid twice...
am so sorry that you are in so much pain ... August, 2023, I was diagnosed with PMR ... my joints were swollen, hence the PMR ... years of testing before I received my PMR ... corticosteroid injections for their back
Discussion: Long Covid pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jan 9, 2024
Interesting that this happened after your Covid Vax and booster I became inflicted with PMR about...
and booster I became inflicted with PMR ... I suffered a lot of pain for weeks before ... am currently on 10mg and I feel the pain ... coming back in legs, groin and shoulders
Posted: Dec 21, 2023
@dsm68, @johnbishop, @megz, and all...Good conversation, but I have different experiences to report. I've taken Prednisone...
At 77 now, I'm back on it for new ... PMR and GCA from Covid in July and ... intake of calories...although, during a painful ... determined to get my weight down...my pain
Posted: Dec 20, 2023
Anxious to get off Prednisone I tapered the dose too rapidly and now have to go...
dose too rapidly and now have to go back ... up to knock down the muscle pain. ... PMR sucks.
Posted: Dec 6, 2023
I agree with @megz When I was first diagnosed with PMR -- pain would wake me...
When I was first diagnosed with PMR ... -- pain would wake me up in the middle ... I was up the rest of the night in pain ... I didn't have as much pain and felt ... I gradually got back to one morning
Posted: Dec 3, 2023
Good morning all - @annemarie74 @barracudacool Can you tell me if you would describe the pain/stiffness...
tell me if you would describe the pain ... as EXACTLY the way you experienced PMR ... So i now can't tell if this is PMR ... increase my evening dose and revert back
At or about the 7 mg dose of prednisone was a tricky dose for me. That...
When I got to 7 mg, the pain would be ... I usually went back to 10 or 15 mg of ... #39;t even think it was a flare of PMR ... because the pain was never the same ... as my original PMR symptoms.
@christopherc, My first time with PMR lasted 3-1/2 years until I could taper off of prednisone....
It came back 6 years later and I was ... and I'm hoping the overwhelming pain ... have degenerative arthritis and lower back ... might be back due to shoulder joint ... pain but it's really nothing like
Discussion: PMR Remission
Posted: Nov 15, 2023
@lindaadel, Seven months is not a long time for PMR. I don't think it's a matter...
Seven months is not a long time for PMR ... of withdrawal effects but if your pain ... you are taking prednisone for your PMR ... and it comes back when you stop taking ... Do you keep a daily pain log along with
My assumption is that when folks on this forum are talking "pain-free" they mean, as I...
" they mean, as I do, pain from ... PMR. ... I'm gonna assume that non-PMR 69 ... yr old bones pain will creep back into ... (PMR).
I’ve had PMR for a year. I’m on my 2nd attempt at tapering and stalled out...
I’ve had PMR for a year. ... limited functioning that I’ve now gone back ... ll give myself the respite of less pain
I've had PMR for over a year and tapering is frustrating. Started at 20mg and easily...
I've had PMR for over a year and ... Got to 5 once but had to go back up ... due to pain. ... blood tests and CRP jumped again, so back
Good Morning crew, I think this system is a sorry excuse for a Broke Back Health...
system is a sorry excuse for a Broke Back ... Back to PMR still on the 15mg of the ... reduction and doing ok, because no pain ... portion of my simple old person life back ... and grammar as my mind was adrift back
Posted: Oct 23, 2023
Thank you for contacting me and giving me the link to the article. What got me...
Also, I have pain in the biceps in both ... the first signs of a problem as far back ... Surgeon referred me to a Rheumatologist back ... the descriptions of symptoms on the PMR ... feel the my condition leans toward PMR
I was very reluctantly diagnosed with PMR a year ago, despite normal ESR and CRP tests....
was very reluctantly diagnosed with PMR ... inflammation-they are NOT specific to PMR ... with overnight, extreme stiffness and pain ... mg of prednisone and I was almost back ... Up to 20% of PMR patients do not have
Posted: Oct 16, 2023
I have had 8 injections of Kevzara. To date I have not had any improvements. I’ve...
prednisone, tapered off and had to get back ... I am in pain all day and into the night ... To me I have a severe case of PMR, for
Posted: Oct 2, 2023
Been awhile since I posted on this section since things have been quiet with the PMR...
since things have been quiet with the PMR ... but I think it is back, along with ... We will see what it does with the pain
I was diagnosed with PMR in March of 2021. I started on 20 mg prednisone a...
I was diagnosed with PMR in March of ... The first 2 weeks were hard, pain and ... that was bad enough to get me to go back ... regained all my energy from before PMR
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Sep 18, 2023