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I initially contracted PMR with a week after my second Pfyzer vaccination. I had a very...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1177383/

I initially contracted PMR with a week ... year later, it didn't trigger my PMR

Discussion: PMR Flair up From a Virus?

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Nov 21, 2024

During Covid we used the covid money the government sent and to put it back into...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1194535/

stiffness and soreness of not only my PMR ... I am 78 I have had PMR for 7 years now

Discussion: Use of a sauna with PMR

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Dec 21, 2024

oh my gosh. this is the most helpful comment I have read on any forum. I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1143350/

years on prednisone and really feel my PMR ... slightly different than the original PMR

Discussion: If you have tapering problems below 5 mg this might explain why.

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Sep 18, 2024

steroids do have side effects. But so can the pain/inflammation you endure trying to not use...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1092328/

Your body needs to cure the PMR. ... understand how it is affecting your body, PMR

Discussion: treatment of PMR

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jun 23, 2024

Thank-you for this excerpt. Does the following link take you to the entire context? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263906/ I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1074433/

the taper actually re-creates the PMR ... ." I was booted off another PMR

Discussion: PMR - Decreased prednisone and pain returned

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: May 25, 2024

I too had PMR a few years back. I am completely pain free now. They put...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1070908/

I too had PMR a few years back. ... reveal if the pain is related to the PMR

Discussion: New PMR patient, wondering if mornings will become pain free someday

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: May 19, 2024

Hello @bluffton, I see you've been following Connect for quite awhile and this is your first...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1065916/

Look what searching for PMR gets you ... search=PMR.

Discussion: If it’s not one thing….It’s three

Support Group: Aging Well

Posted: May 11, 2024

You are the perfect person who needs Actemra or some other "suitable alternative" instead of prednisone....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/990014/

me for stopping the pain caused by PMR ... though Actemra was controlling by PMR

Discussion: Methotrexate / Actemra

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jan 2, 2024

Thank you for responding. I only found out the relationship with Shingrix vaccine and PMR by...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/978709/

relationship with Shingrix vaccine and PMR ... My rheumatologist would say PMR is a

Discussion: How long has PMR lasted - I'm trying to find the average

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Dec 11, 2023

How have your Drs ruled out PMR? There is no real test for it. My rheumatologist...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/973257/

How have your Drs ruled out PMR? ... try a round of prednisone if it’s PMR

Discussion: Bilateral Muscle Pain in Arms, Legs, Neck and Shoulders

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Dec 1, 2023

At or about the 7 mg dose of prednisone was a tricky dose for me. That...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/972445/

#39;t even think it was a flare of PMR ... was never the same as my original PMR

Discussion: PMR flare at a drop from 8 to 7 mg of prednisone?

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Nov 29, 2023

Very healthy 71 year old, took no meds, active as a 25 yr. old, had stress...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/891406/

All boxes check with PMR, to see rheumatologist ... NEVER HEARD OF PMR but it has my attention

Discussion: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR): Meet others & Share Your Story

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jul 7, 2023

I understand where your coming last week I had insist on seeing a rheumatologist which I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/873360/

#39;t to convinced he had dealt with pmr ... that 6 IN EVERY 10.000 PEOPLE Get pmr

Discussion: Is everyone here diagnosed with PMR seeing a rheumatologist?

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jun 6, 2023

Thanks for the information. My dx was made with labs and symptoms. Plus my mother had...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/803469/

Plus my mother had pmr for yrs. ... orthopedic doc knews anything about pmr

Discussion: Hip pain

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jan 29, 2023

Been on 2mg a day since mid 2019. (Tried 4mg and didn't seem to make a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/794828/

It does not fix the pain of PMR, however ... It could have been PMR related.

Discussion: PMR Flair up From a Virus?

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jan 10, 2023

Hi all. I went to MY PC doc yesterday and all we talked about was PMR...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/749074/

yesterday and all we talked about was PMR ... anyone else have HUGE ankles from PMR

Discussion: Prednisone tapering is challenging. What does remission feel like?

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Sep 13, 2022

So glad to know you are finally getting to see a rheumatologist. I'm sure that will...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/708354/

My PMR is currently in remission. ... When my PMR was active, there were times

Discussion: PMR - Decreased prednisone and pain returned

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: May 15, 2022

@novabill I had osteoarthritis diagnosed in my knees shortly before the first onslaught of PMR. Since...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/696076/

shortly before the first onslaught of PMR ... Since PMR I have gotten hyaluronic acid

Discussion: Golf and PMR

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Apr 4, 2022

Hi @tillysam, I don't think I ever experienced a heaviness feeling in the upper chest, neck...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/682806/

and shoulder area during one of my 2 PMR ... normal pains and aches that go with PMR

Discussion: Adjusting to life with temporal arteritis

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Feb 20, 2022

There is evidence that people with PMR should take their prescribed dose of prednisone later in...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/673337/

There is evidence that people with PMR ... After my PMR Diagnosis I was taking

Discussion: Melatonin and PMR

Support Group: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)

Posted: Jan 21, 2022