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Good evening, I am 54 and started develop PMR symptoms whilst recovering from surgery on my foot. 8 weeks ago, at first I thought the terrible pains in all of my joints was due to poor posture from the use of crutches for 5 weeks, then I got the flu on Xmas day and the pains got really unbearable. The stiffness when I wake up is the worst and sitting down and getting up. I dread bed time because it’s so darn painful. My foot was healing nicely but this joint pain was nothing I had ever experienced except when I had operations on both frozen shoulders 10 years ago. I went to the doctors as I was due to return to work and she said “ it’s the flu” but the flu came and went and my pains stayed. 7 weeks later from when it started I have finally seen a rhumatologist who thinks it is PMR but I have to wait 2 weeks to see him for the diagnosis and this is through BUPA. I am back to work and struggling to manage the pain and stiffness and driving hurts my arms and neck. I am so stiff when I get out of the car too. I bathe, rub volterol into my joints morning and night and take co cocodomol with parecetomol in a morning and at night but only take patecetomol during the time I’m at work. I used to take ibruprofen but he told me my blood pressure was dangerously high so I stopped that straightaway. Please can you advise what would help to manage the pain until I get confirmation of the diognosis as I’m not coping too well 😞. Really sorry for the length of this but don’t know wear to turn at the moment x
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Hi All
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