Archive for Experience of Polymyalgia from 2005
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I am a 57 year old male and have recently been diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica by my GP having suffered since October 2004. Steroid treatment was prescribed and within 24 hours the improvement was dramatic both physically and mentally. A friend of my wife had seen the article in My Weekly and said how similar the symptoms were to mine. I spent a lot of time researching Polymalgia (where I found this web site) and was convinced of the diagnosis even before my GP confimed it.
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I was started on a high dose of steroid 30mg a day for a week,decreasing weekly until I had reached 5mg a day. The initial results were fantastic life resumed as normal. However after a few weeks some of the symptoms returned which I tried to aleviate with between 2-6 paracetamol. This was fine with the doctor.
On questioning the doctor as to whether I should perhaps just go ahead with the paracetamol he advised definately no, but that for a short period of 5 days when life was difficult I could 'up my dose'.
I am on 7,1/2mg a day and although the symptoms are back I am trying to keep to the lower dosage because of possible side effects.
Having discovered this website it has proved very helpful to read about other peoples problems and to now be able to say this is not just 'old age' and to have my condition dismissed as some of the other junior doctors at the practice had done.
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My GP said they would never have considered the possibility of PMR at my age if I hadn't been severly anaemic.. so I am finally on the road to stability and less pain.
Never give up hope
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