PMR attack of the wrists.

Maggie, as PMR runs it's course, symptoms show up somewhat randomly, each for some period of time.

In my case, I've had months-long stiffening of the knees, sore feet, arthritic thumb joints, and painful ribcage, each at a different time.

So something like painful wrist joints sounds just like the next possible thing I might have to deal with, though thankfully not yet, and I'm still hopeful that perhaps my intense ribcage pain might be the last area to get hit.

I would like to create a list of specific symptoms by region that are subject to episodic pmr attack.

I do notice that, with respect to my more-recent regional symptoms, that I can reverse any onset of new symptoms by increasing my prednisone dosage slightly, so I am now back up to 6mg (18 months into treatment) in response to my thumb joint and ribcage symptoms, and have been "stuck" at 6mg for several months now.

Yes,I have had exactly the same with this flare up-first time ever and like you weakness of grip.Other members on forum put my mind at rest as they have had the same

Hi maggiGrace,

sorry to hear about your wrists. It's just a thought but I also had painful wrists last week and also thought it might be pmr. Then I thought about what I'd been doing over the previous days before. My food processor had packed up and I made a batch of pastry by hand! Hence the pain and it has now cleared up. So it's always wise to look for other reasons first before blaming pmr. I do empathise and hope you get rid of the pain soon whatever it is.

Hello Maggie, I've had PMR for nearly two years and can remember having the wrist aches and pains but put it down to the Alendronic Acid as this is when it seemed to flare the most.

i don't know what mg of pred you started on but 6mg seems quite low at around 6 months into PMR and I wondered if this could be a reason too.

hope it soon goes away.

glenys 

Maggi, what dose of predict were you started on - and what were your ESR & CPR results?

On the forum lately there seem to be many sufferers who get down to amazingly low pred after only a few months!  I have always had bad wrist pain (among other things!) and after 3 1/2 years I have had great difficulties getting down to 6 mg (and I know I am not alone on this).  

Have your doctors found some miracle drug that gets you of pred so quickly?  I wear wrist bandages at night, and sometimes during the day, to cope with the pain.  I also wear ankle supports at night or when I go for a walk.  In fact it seems lately as though I am getting 'dressed' to go to bed!!!

Hi Maggi I've had PMR for about a year with the classic symptoms you described..  Started at 15mg pred. and over the last 24 weeks have been reducing at the rate of 1mg every 2 weeks. Got down to 4mg with no problems.  When I dropped to 3mg the symptoms started in my hands and wrists just as you've described.  I went back up to 4mg for a few days and then upped it to 6mg and there now appears to be an improvement.  Good luck. Bob

Yes i am reducing from 10mg to 8.5mg and my feet for the last 3 weeks feel as if they are on fire, and today my thumb and fingers hurt, i have only had this since reducing i think it is to be expected.