- Sorry to hear you ended up with GCA ... after your PMR...that seems to happen ... pointed out, at least I'm aware of GCA ... route doesn't really work for PMR ... system (I also have SIBO as well as PMR

After 2 years of PMR down to 3 ml of ... having jaw pain and was diagnosed with GCA

I'm glad your own PMR didn't ... lead to GCA.

They do not want PMR Medicare patients ... N European, even family history of PMR ... got home, I had figured out it was PMR ... LDN was recommended by many in the PMR ... I do not want to bring on GCA!

Actemra is only FDA approved for GCA ... I have never been diagnosed with GCA ... Actemra isn't FDA approved for PMR ... got Acterma approved for me to treat PMR ... because Actemra seems to work for PMR

corticosteroids quickly relieved symptoms of PMR ... The belief is PMR will "burn itself ... for some autoimmune disorders but PMR ... /GCA has some catching up to do.

along with a year long journey with PMR ... I was just diagnosed with GCA last

diagnosed with a very severe case of PMR ... and/or GCA in early 2023.

/GCA is primarily an age related condition ... arthritis and symptoms overlap with PMR ... When I was diagnosed with PMR in addition ... I would speculate that PMR is the body ... In my way of thinking, PMR is a not

anyone finds it helpful...I have had PMR ... predisposition as my grandmother had PMR ... /GCA and my mother has PMR. ... mg weekly to see if it helps reduce PMR ... PMR may be triggered by any virus or

GCA is scary but having read comments ... back "least likely" to have GCA ... to my surprise I was diagnosed with PMR ... immediately put on Prednisone 60 mg for GCA

I have pmr (diagnosed May of 2022) and ... gca (diagnosed Sept 2022) and was on

Hi @jennywren, GCA can cause stroke ... dosage of prednisone than that for PMR ... I had PMR untreated a year, then symptoms ... of GCA including some visual disturbance ... GCA was confirmed by a temporal artery

is it still "presumptive" PMR ... and/or GCA and/or something else? ... We were calling this pain PMR but my ... was what I did for 20 years before PMR

I was diagnosed with GCA in 2020 and ... Along the way, I got PMR.

prednisone about 10 years by then for PMR ... because the ongoing study was for GCA ... patients and my diagnosis was chronic PMR ... recommendation was to treat my case of chronic PMR ... the same guidelines established for GCA

I was never diagnosed with GCA but Actemra ... offered to me almost 5 years ago for PMR ... prednisone daily for 12 years for chronic PMR

I was diagnosed with PMR in 2016, though ... with moderate pain when I developed GCA

I was also told I had PMR. ... monthly infusions of Actemra for the GCA ... #39;s been a year and a half and the GCA ... But the PMR just returned a month ago

I had symptoms of PMR, and later GCA ... That concerned me more than the GCA, ... Prednisone took care of the GCA and ... My mother-in-law got GCA in her late ... dose aspirin everyday as people with GCA