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Ugh, just been diagnosed with shingles, vaccine in one year?
After two days of intense stabbing pain ... Just as she got back to me, the rash ... about the vaccine exacerbating the PMR
Last active: Mar 21 4:47am
Pericarditis with PMR and Scleroderma
Pericarditis with PMR and Scleroderma ... with contrast yesterday due to chest pain ... with radiation to left shoulder, back ... I have PMR and morphea/scleroderma, ... minimal activity elicits the chest pain
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Feb 29, 2024
Chronic Fatigue while tapering Prednisone for PMR
Fatigue while tapering Prednisone for PMR ... I’ve had PMR since April 2020. ... I had a terrible flare up so went back ... get to 6.5, my flare ups and intense pain
Last active: Mar 24 6:52am
Giant Cell Arteritis Diagnosis
then another 6 months before getting back ... shoulder and lower back pain for no ... in both shoulders , minor pain both ... Looked like PMR, also had elevated liver ... I was researching PMR at saw GCR mentioned
Last active: Aug 3 6:19pm
Questioning my diagnosis of PMR
Questioning my diagnosis of PMR ... I never considered it pain. ... Every test comes back negative. ... I was given a working diagnosis of PMR ... others, I wonder if indeed I do have PMR
Last active: Jul 1, 2022
FDA approved Tyenne significantly cheaper biosimilar to Actemra
first prednisone really helped with my PMR ... down to 5-6mg, resume of symptoms, back ... symptoms, mostly fatigue, but also some pains
Last active: Sep 12, 2024
Hey vascular necrosis
I’ve had PMR for more than 3 1/2 years ... year, offered for a year and then back ... specializes in hips and knees because of pain ... I was on prednisone for PMR.
Last active: Sep 23, 2024
Diagnosed with PMR 16 days ago.
Diagnosed with PMR 16 days ago. ... of struggle, I was diagnosed with PMR ... started the day in a little bit of pain ... morning, I was so stiff that I was back
Last active: Jul 27 12:36pm
Feeling defeated
seeking some hope and optimism, because PMR ... (although I've had unexplained pain ... prednisone, which obliterated the pain ... but I absolutely need my mobility back ... stories, and that there's life after PMR
Last active: Jan 20 1:08pm
Back on Prednisone
Back on Prednisone ... been off the med for 23 days and the pain ... home and took 15 mg, took my last pain ... Cardiologist a message that I was back ... I absolutely hate PMR.
Last active: Jun 21 11:39am
Bakers Cysts, Lacrimal Caruncle Spots
have still not been diagnosed with PMR ... Back when I had my first symptoms, it ... After PT, they both became very PMR-like ... As time went by, pain and stiffness ... Then I realized the backs of my knees
Last active: May 16, 2024
3 1/2 years of chronic pain~ Still looking for solutions~please help
Do I have Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR ... group and someone directed me to this PMR ... I have not heard of PMR before. ... so injections of predisone into my back ... the tissue has "relaxed in the back
Last active: May 27, 2024
Normal response after 5 days on prednisone?
checking off a lot of the boxes, so pmr ... prednisone after breakfast but have pain ... (shoulders, back of knees, quads) when
Last active: Nov 7, 2024
Has anyone "self-tapered" (increase or decrease prednisone)
my husband's second bout with PMR ... this be the reason, he still has the pain ... stuck under 3mg of prednisone with pain ... I told him to try to go back up to 5mg
Last active: May 13, 2024
Muscle tears and PMR and/or pred?
Muscle tears and PMR and/or pred? ... Today ended up being a very painful ... floor and same thing happened in the back ... of my left thigh talk about painful ... pred is hard on your body...and so is PMR
Last active: Jun 10, 2023
New Diagnosis of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (Husband)
subject of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR ... interaction"; people who may have PMR ... He has no neuropathic pain, but a severe ... But on the 3rd day, the pain, weakness ... , and unsteadiness started to come back
Last active: Feb 29, 2024
Severe, debilitating bilateral hip pain
I’ve suffered from lower back pain for ... January 2024, I started having lower back ... in my lower back & left hip. ... He diagnosed me with PMR and gave me ... feel like it’s something other than PMR
Last active: Feb 15 6:43pm
PMR: Are there treatment alternatives to Prednisone?
PMR: Are there treatment alternatives ... I've been on the PMR/Prednisone ... train for about 6 months now (was in pain ... tapered down to 15 mg/day, and the pain ... consider increasing dosage and heading back
Last active: Jan 11, 2024
2 year struggle to get off prednisone still hard to get from 3 to 2mg
Was started on 20mg prednisone for PMR ... May 2022 significant pain relief but ... overwhelming fatigue nausea headache and pain ... 22 months to get to 3mg my face is back
Last active: May 15, 2024
Dry brushing
relieve some of my morning stiffness and pain ... from PMR. ... ’m a 68 year old male and have had PMR ... went off it for a year and then went back ... seven months now and mostly find the pain
Last active: Jun 14, 2024