. -- PMR: Are there treatment alternatives ... to Prednisone? ... /connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/alternatives-to-prednisone ... / Have you been diagnosed with PMR ... and started on prednisone?

Hi, nkdonohue Fifteen to 20 mg of prednisone ... a common amount to start treating PMR ... pain is part of the diagnosis for PMR ... Usually, the prednisone gives very ... Alternatively, if nsaids or pain killers

Hello@abbeyc and @quilterdar I had PMR ... The pain with PMR was so extreme I ... to strength training until, taking prednisone ... I alternate walking with strength training ... Now I'm down to 4 mg of Prednisone

This is from a medical textbook on PMR ... should be an immediate improvement in PMR ... #39;t improvement after 5-7 days, an alternate ... requires a higher dose of steroids than PMR ... lower dosage of the steroid, usually prednisone

down for the last 6 months from 5mg prednisone ... every day for 2 weeks, then 1mg every alternate ... have had strange pain reducing the prednisone ... you every success in getting off the prednisone ... as there is so little known about PMR

John, This is the 18th day of the “alternate ... the Rheumatologist diagnosed me with PMR ... none of the blood tests confirmed PMR ... recommendation I won’t risk taking prednisone ... beg the question, did I even have PMR

Before I was diagnosed with PMR on 8 ... maximum dose of Ibuprofen and Tylenol alternately ... that you ask for a short trial of prednisone

For me the lowest effective dose of Prednisone ... the 'hit by a truck' pain of PMR ... time to get off the afternoon dose of Prednisone ... , my reductions alternated between

if we do this right, it will not be PMR ... schedule, and do not independently alter ... levels along the way that were not PMR ... do not automatically reach for the prednisone

When the pain started from PMR I thought ... The prednisone alters a lot of things

I took prednisone for 12 years for PMR ... decided that I had "refractory PMR ... ." For refractory PMR an alternative ... to prednisone is needed. ... little resistance to the effects of Prednisone

Prednisone isn't the only option ... Actemra was the alternative that worked ... for me and allowed me to taper off prednisone ... the effort that is underway to find alternatives ... to long term Prednisone for the treatment

of wellbeing, but has not seemed to alter ... the course of my pmr symptoms. ... (First attack, age > 70, prednisone

#34; Most doctors will introduce an alternative ... but some people have both GCA and PMR ... what some people have received for PMR ... https://www.kevzara.com/hcp/pmr --- ... This is why people need to find an alternative

While I agree with getting off Prednisone ... recommendations for the treatment of PMR ... dose to an oral dose of 10 mg/day prednisone ... Relapse therapy: Increase oral prednisone ... using schedules such as 10/7.5 mg alternate

sorry to hear the vaccine caused your PMR ... lucky in that it didn't cause my PMR ... You mentioned the PMR started in December ... Are you still on prednisone or an alternative

entirely clear to me that I still had PMR ... ;other reasons" which were not PMR ... It was easier to blame PMR for everything ... I had to be open to alternatives to ... only option" for the treatment of PMR

vaccines, I’m beginning to think being on prednisone ... alters to immune response to vaccines ... immunosuppressant medications for PMR ... Prednisone clearly alters the immune ... Prednisone just makes my immune system

responded quickly when I took 100 mg of prednisone ... of GCA after I was diagnosed with PMR ... Alterations in the innervation of the

for years when PMR is diagnosed. ... Eventually treatment for PMR will evolve ... PMR has been slow to evolve since more ... did the research and looked for an alternative ... treatment for PMR.