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First flare this morning, can cold make it worse?

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jancorb
jancorb

Good morning

I'm now one week into my first taper from 15 down to 14 preds, for the last 3 days I felt really well, in fact began to think my diagnosis was wrong.

Silly me, woke up a 3 am feeling sore, by 6 am I was at 7 out of 10 on my own pain scale, so depressed but now certain I do have a problem.

Just wondering if cold could spark a flare? before the diagnosis I suffered aches and pains when the weather changed, this week I've enjoyed pottering in the greenhouse with the lovely sunny weather making it a joy to be outside, yesterday back to really cold weather and I got very chilled. Is their a relationship with temperature and PMR?

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    FlipDover_Aust jancorb

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    I've not noticed the cold weather - but I am heading into my second winter with PMR and this time last year I was very poorly anyway, so I wouldn't have noticed. We are getting down to 0* some mornings already and still a few weeks away from it being officially winter!

    Any hoo, what I actually wanted to say was that I wouldn't consider what you are having as a 'flare' in the sense most of us use the term.  You are only recently diagnosed yes? Just started on pred? I think most of us would consider a 'flare' as something that comes after a long(ish) time reducing or at lower doses of pred. 

    At this point in your treatment it's more likely that you don't have the inflammation under control and it's got away from you so to speak.

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