complicated situation I would like feed-back ... my doc doesn't think my other pain ... and stiffness is PMR.

@susan63, My PMR is currently in remission ... Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common ... cervical and, occasionally, lumbar pain ... but is not associated with spinal pain ... Can you provide an update after your back

The fact that prednisone eased the pain ... your GP to assume your husband has PMR ... The treatment for PMR is prednisone ... I would go back to your GP and request ... I went back on prednisone and have been

you taking 40 mgs. now and still in pain ... too, suffered with severe hip/lower back ... pain. ... difficult to determine if it's PMR ... Pain is a pain.

This is my 3 rd round of PMR each one ... No pain and amazingly low CRP number ... philosophy is that if I have to go back

Hi @beryl, Welcome back! ... Also glad to hear your PMR is staying ... even though you are having some nerve pain

prednisone for GCA is higher than for PMR ... 4 mg now for a while and virtually pain ... I was down to 3, but went back up to

Hi @aliceoleary, I had PMR untreated ... with a tender scalp, short stabbing pains ... cough, and a stiff sore neck with pains ... up the back of my head. ... a higher dosage of Prednisone than PMR

I believe my PMR started shortly after ... mg prednisone in 14 months, with no pain ... Moderna COVID vaccine, but full blown PMR ... Started back on prednisone in April ... and generally in good health, bar PMR

Just another PMR sufferer. ... takes several months for them to come back ... order to give them time to get them back ... taper unless you are not having any pain ... to have a flare, which will set you back

Back pain startet then. ... I didn't last 2 weeks and went back ... good health and was gobsmacked by PMR

a little disappointed as well, but back ... That's when the neck pain reared ... #39;s ugly head, but I knew not of PMR ... I scraped the skin on my left shin back

My pain radiated to My neck, shoulders ... , arms, lower back, buttocks and left ... levels My rheumatologist monitors my PMR ... X-rays on my legs and a CT Scan on my back

at 15mg but had a small amount of pain ... after 2 weeks he said I should go back ... helping understand how to navigate PMR

This is my third round of PMR each one ... 3 mg but symptoms returned so went back ... to 5 mg and pain subsided. ... and active woman when I don’t have PMR

Hi @abbeyc, my PMR and GCA were not ... strength training exercises as it was too painful ... prednisone, and abatement of significant pain ... With prednisone, my appetite came back

I believe that my PMR was triggered ... too much gardening and dismissed the pain ... had and saw my doctor but looking back

It was PMR. ... since Jan. 4/22 has alleviated the pain ... completely and I now have my life back

each of us are different with the pain ... mind living with a 1 or 2 level of pain ... weeks but on my first occurrence with PMR ... years with the last six months going back ... prednisone and still had about a 1 level of pain

The pain with PMR was so extreme I ... I did not go back to strength training ... until, taking prednisone, my pain ... My muscles are coming back, no longer ... was under control and they went back