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@docmeehan, I didn't really try an anti-inflammatory diet or supplements my first time around with PMR...
supplements my first time around with PMR ... Six years later the PMR came back and ... years the second time around with PMR ... keeping a daily log with your level of pain ... a week or so if it was time and my pain
Posted: Dec 5, 2024
Good morning. I am new here and so glad I have found this support group. I...
groin, hamstring, shoulder and arm pain ... primary doc she said she thought I had PMR ... were back. ... down to 4 mg. but am having a lot of pains ... She told me to go back to 7 mg. and
Posted: Dec 2, 2024
I had PMR a year ago with pain in both shoulders, hips and hands, used Prednisone...
I had PMR a year ago with pain in both ... All pain went away and now for the last ... 2 months I am getting hand pain, numbness ... Is it possible the PMR is back?
Posted: Nov 24, 2024
3 weeks into a terrible head/chest cold and my PMR pain returned . At first a...
a terrible head/chest cold and my PMR ... pain returned . ... wrists and then within 2 days the pain ... was all back, shoulders, neck, legs ... So disappointed that I’m back on 8 mg
Posted: Nov 20, 2024
I didn't want to take Prednisone either. It wasn't as though I was given a choice....
Looking back on why I took Prednisone ... There were other times, when the pain ... wasn't PMR. ... Not all pain was the same but it all ... seemed like PMR.
Posted: Nov 19, 2024
I think that's a tough one just because each of us are different. My rheumatologist was...
My first time with PMR I spent the last ... finally stop taking it and my morning pain ... did that I didn't go all the way back ... Instead I bumped it back up to half
Posted: Nov 18, 2024
I’m coming up on two years now. My doctor had originally said oh this will all...
in eating habits and trying to get back ... slightly overdue the exercise I’m in pain ... example it’s only been approved for PMR
Posted: Nov 16, 2024
I think that your nasty rheumy has moved here to Minnesota. Ha. same situation. I have...
have been on for 8 years becasue of PMR ... She told me PMR only lasts 1 year EMPHATICALLY ... I was in terrible pain and did not exercise ... I went up to 4 and tapered quickly back
Posted: Nov 12, 2024
Jonifranklin- it took me about 6 months to get off the prednisone, so have patience once...
prednisone, fall allergies have me back ... and the usual age related aches and pains ... They thought it was PMR and it took
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Nov 12, 2024
PMR in remission for 10 months, now down to 2 mg decreasing 0.5 per month. Yes,...
PMR in remission for 10 months, now ... Yes, to variable muscular lower back ... pain, occasionally max 2 out of 10, ... which did not exist prior to PMR. ... My thinking is that PMR has so restricted
Discussion: Back pain
Posted: Nov 5, 2024
Hi, I am sorry for your back pain which can be so debilitating. I have been...
Hi, I am sorry for your back pain which ... first, I was not feeling much soreness/pain ... soreness returned with occasional back ... pains. ... because I thought I was finished with PMR
Discussion: Back pain
Posted: Nov 5, 2024
PMR came into my life two months ago. Formally diagnosed last week. I saw two Rhuematologists...
PMR came into my life two months ago ... They also asked about very painful headaches ... at the temples, jaw pain, and taking ... meant to alarm you, but I would push back
Posted: Oct 30, 2024
Its really challenging emotionally and physically to have chronic pain all the time. A few years...
emotionally and physically to have chronic pain ... A few years back I was diagnosed with ... three auto diseases, plus PMR. ... I had pain 24/7. ... calories, used some natural remedies for pain
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Ann, I’ve had PMR since December last year. Initially, it was my hips that were most...
Ann, I’ve had PMR since December last ... in the back of my knees. ... My rheumatologist told me the pain was ... on a low-dose of steroid because my PMR ... effective for the bursitis as well as the PMR
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
I had some lingering pain but the pain could be explained and it wasn't caused by...
I had some lingering pain but the pain ... explained and it wasn't caused by PMR ... thinks prednisone gives your life back ... needed prednisone to control my "PMR ... compared to having a "flare of PMR
Posted: Oct 19, 2024
My PMR started in Jan in my thighs, then went on quickly to groin, adductors, adductors,...
My PMR started in Jan in my thighs, ... shoulder/rotator cuffs with some "pain ... Off and on the pain would go away! ... walking every other day a few months back ... body strengthening even through the pain
Posted: Oct 8, 2024
Hi to both of you. While my situation is a bit different than yours, I am...
Diagnosed with PMR about 18 months ago ... With the pain gone I was able to continue ... but my hip joint stiffness has come back ... physical shape have to deal with the pain ... of PMR.
Discussion: Exercise
Posted: Oct 4, 2024
It seems to me that anything that stimulates your bodies immune response, if you have PMR...
bodies immune response, if you have PMR ... contract it, is a risk to cause a PMR ... (shoulder pain in muscles, hips, and ... I'm now back on prednisone, starting ... I'm back to normal..e.g. pain free
Please, Please Be Careful with the Acetaminophen high dosage. A friend of mine's Dad passed from...
ask your doctor about Tramadol 50mg pain ... It is a synthetic, non addictive pain ... Surgeries/Fractured C7 vertebrae and now PMR ... Back pain resulted in onset of no clue ... I hate to see any good person in pain