Anaemia

I understand that B-12 sublingual could be beneficial for the symptoms you describe. The internet can give you information about B-12.  You could check with your GP about it also.  I have used it, and it has helped me.

 

Last part of paragraph!   Not heard that one on this forum yet.  What a thought? How old are you?  A "few years" would be rather risky I fear!!!!

Unfortunately your journey is just beginning,  but take heart, some sufferers of PMR don't have too bad a time of it.  

Have you asked your Dr about anaemia?  He, of course, should be your first call.

When I reduced my Preds too quickly I was so tired I spent a week in bed. Never done that in my whole life !

it helped a lot because I did a lot of research and found so many reasons for tiredness and pain. I changed everything after that and especially my diet. Green vegetable powder mixed with juice every evening helps me sleep well. That is the first problem to address. There are a number of vitamins and minerals that go awol especially if you have also been prescribed stomach acid reduction tablets. I found magnesium, zinc and B12 were very low also calcium was up the creek but Doc prescribed  Fultium D3 gel capsuls as the chalky ones made me very sick. I have adjusted my diet considerably and added a great deal more green vegetables which have definitely made an improvement.

Hi Andrea, welcome. Pre diagnosis, actually it should have been your very first blood test, even before CRP /ESR blood test your Dr should have tested for anaemia. I was slightly anaemic and that problem has normalised by taking just 14mgs of iron daily. All the best, christina 

Your can get super green vegetable powder from Amazon and it works very quickly, especially if you have sleep problems !