flare ups and preds
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I am now taking 3mgs of Pred for the flare up I had a few weeks ago. This is a very comfortable dose and am pain free at the moment. However doc today wants me to see Rheumy to clarify it is Pmr and not masking Arthritis. I have started slow reduction to see if I can get to 2mgs before I see Rhuemy. After 2 yrs Doc is keen for me to reduce totally. Dread the thought of no preds again in case I get another Flare up or Rheumy says Arthritis so stop and take other Meds. Well will find out in August till see Rheumy. Good luck everyone trying to reduce it isn't easy coping with the stiffness and pain.Wonder how people coped before Preds were used and Pmr was discovered.Does anyone know when this was I had never heard of it till I got it.
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lodgerUK_NE beatrice74480
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It could be a possibility that you might have Late Onset RA and if so the Consultant will find out.
You can have both PMR and LORA.
Yes it is an old illness and they think it has been with us forever. Just not recognised until medicine progressed.
However, it wasn't until the 1940's and early 1950's that reports on this condition started to appear under a variety of names such as secondary fibrositis, periarthrosis humeroscapularis,
In 1957 the term “polymyalgia rheumatica” caught the attention of many, and this name was eventually adopted.
In the 1950s, shortly after the discovery of the potent anti-inflammatory properties of cortisone, showed that GCA responded well to this drug. Later, low doses were found also to be very effective in PMR.
The link between GCA and PMR wasn't recognized immediately but in the 1940's and 1950's
We have the person who found pred (warts and all) to thank for saving people's sight and controlling the inflammation until they decide to go into remission. Auto-immune illnesses have minds of their own.
There is still no known cause or cure, but there is much more research being done now than there was 10 years ago.
beatrice74480 lodgerUK_NE
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julian. beatrice74480
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Pred first available 1955.
I don't know when pred was identified as a treatment for PMR symptoms.
dan38655 julian.
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julian, do you remember what that first descriptionwas called?
I thought that I read here a while back that it started with "senile", which I might be able to use in more humorous (humerous, lol) discussions ith friends.
Meanwhile, I will try to de-code "periarthrosis humerospapularis", which must be Latin or Greek I suppose.
julian. dan38655
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google translate thinks "periarthrosis humerospapularis" is English,
I was initially misdiagnosed with frozen shoulder in Kuala Lumpur which at least scored me some non-steroidal anti-inflammatories with sufficient reduction in hand swelling and pain to allow preparation of truck for shipping - took me a week to do what normally took a few hours - so I would translate "periarthrosis humerospapularis" as "painful memories".
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