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High ANA reading & meds
test on an RA drug (was previously PMR ... Now bad back pain when sitting …. ... Not keen to go back on Prednisone.
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Jul 21, 2024
Confused on what’s considered “normal”
Started on prednisone for PMR on 10/ ... Had lots of pain and stiffness until ... 20 mg on day 5 when I was still in pain ... The doc has me back to 15 mg for the ... I wasn’t sure that I “should be” pain
Last active: Nov 25, 2024
Getting COVID, Flu etc vaccines while treating for PMR
Flu etc vaccines while treating for PMR ... But my described pain led him to put ... I saw immediate results and the pain ... Looking back, my PMR started about 2 ... received this year's flu vax and my pain
Last active: Feb 3, 2025
Worried about GCA
I was diagnosed with PMR in June after ... Back up to 20mg which did not help then ... I had occasional blurry vision back ... the mean time I was diagnosed with PMR ... very present prior to my diagnosis of PMR
Last active: Jan 3, 2025
Non bilateral presentation
Second day I woke to a swollen painful ... I began to experience some serious pain ... I’ve gone back to 5 mg and for a day ... It’s my understanding that pain is usually ... replacements aren’t as susceptible to PMR
Last active: Sep 11, 2023
Sed Rate still elevated, but pain much improved
Sed Rate still elevated, but pain much ... 12, and my rheumatologist had me go back ... I have continuing shoulder pain and ... I do not believe I still have PMR pain ... distinguish the different kinds of pain
Last active: Oct 27, 2024
Are you taking Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) for PMR?
Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) for PMR ... The pain in my legs and thighs has lessened ... Right now my biggest problem is the pain ... I have tried getting back to playing ... you have, or if you have no pain.
Last active: Jun 19, 2025
Headache in back of head possible symptom of GCA?
Headache in back of head possible symptom ... I have not been diagnosed with PMR but ... I have exhibited no obvious jaw pain
Last active: Oct 26, 2023
Prednisone to Kevzara back to Prednisone. ( Hope not )
Prednisone to Kevzara back to Prednisone ... PMR diagnosed High SED Rate I have ... lowering my dose a few times and my pain ... had knee pain ) weakness in my legs ... off prednisone and not related to PMR
Last active: Oct 8, 2025
Has anyone tried CBD oil for PMR?
Has anyone tried CBD oil for PMR? ... I was diagnosed with PMR in early ... got to 5 mg two weeks ago and the pains ... returned worse than ever so now back
Last active: Dec 30, 2023
Off Prednisone but still feeling new type of pain
Prednisone but still feeling new type of pain ... and doctors all said I no longer had PMR ... plagued with mysterious aches and pains ... - but not as severe or similar to PMR ... I don't want to go back on Prednisone
Last active: Feb 9 8:26am
PMR Case Study with Remaining Questions as of 09-04-2025
Could not get out of bed with major pain ... biceps, deltoids, buttocks, hips, back ... Pain - Originally neck, back, shoulders ... Fatigue - 50% energy loss, coming back ... sleep period all night, wake up, pee back
Last active: Sep 10, 2025
Factors that encourage the body to begin producing cortisol again
studies that indicate receptors in the back ... immediate relief I have found for painful ... PMR aching "flares" has been
Last active: May 5, 2024
Opiods vs. LDN
experience coming off opioids (for pain ... you glad you switched, or did you go back ... years and have tried it all from a pain ... #39;m on Metho, Plaquenil, Rinvoq, pain ... , changed my diet and activity, do PMR
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Last active: Oct 7, 2025
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, 2025
Keep encouraged, tapering second time is working
My husband (now 80) diagnosed with PMR ... tapered down, but in 2023 it came back ... mg with only the slightest arm "pain
Last active: Jan 19, 2025
How to go from a 7 day 50 mg prednisone to the previous 14 mg
daily after 9 months of treatment for PMR ... course and the following day just start back ... Before I had PMR I had to do the 50 ... to be incapacitated again by severe pain
Last active: Mar 17, 2024
Symptoms after you stop prednisone
I was diagnosed with PMR in April, 2023 ... previous osteoarthritis symptoms and pain ... returned in my knees and lower back ... presume that the prednisone masked that pain
Last active: Jan 23 9:34am
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
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, 2025