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Hi @sassytwo, you are a dynamo! I have degenerative disc disease and a previous (2011) spinal...
little to no improvement in my low back ... pain despite the surgery. ... Unfortunately, when PMR started for ... options if the surgery does not improve pain
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Mar 5, 2024
@seniormed Your story has some parallels to my story. I was diagnosed at the age of...
story" is separate from my "PMR ... diagnosis of ReA probably delayed my PMR ... In addition to ReA and PMR there was ... It was very strange back pain. ... The back pain was a problem as well
Posted: Feb 23, 2024
Hi @pomegranet1- That’s horrible about the rhabdo! That sound so typical that doctors wouldn’t believe you,...
other reply that my dad developed PMR ... after his creatinine kinase tests came back ... may know since you’re a nurse, but PMR ... causes severe and debilitating muscle pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 19, 2024
I was on Methylprednisolone for six months for PMR and weaned myself off three months ago....
Methylprednisolone for six months for PMR ... hospital stay for low sodium, terrible back ... pain, etc. ... not as strong as MP,but helps the pain
I was on prednisone for more than 12 years. I have been completely off prednisone for...
tocilizumab) to treat "refractory PMR ... FDA approved for the treatment of PMR ... because he believed it should work for PMR ... My symptoms were muscle and joint pain ... to 5 mg before going back to 3 mg.
Discussion: PMR Taper and pain
Posted: Feb 15, 2024
I was diagnosed with PMR about 4 years ago. Weaned off Pred last December, even though...
I was diagnosed with PMR about 4 years ... , even though my shoulders were in pain ... PCP yesterday and my c-reactive is back ... Pred the only recourse I have to get back ... on the pain mgmt wagon?
@bitsygirl, The prednisone is the magic pill that makes PMR symptoms go away or at least...
make it where we don't feel the pain ... m always thinking it may be coming back ... with every little shoulder pain or ... keeping a daily log with your level of pain ... search=pmr+managing+symptoms.
Posted: Jan 22, 2024
Here are some of the questions I have on my list, and if anyone can answer...
and my arms and hands have severe pain ... Could this be part of the PMR? ... - I’m on Prednisone 10 mg, but my PMR ... constant clearing of throat (drip in back ... information, do you also think this is PMR
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).