Pain in one area only?
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Steroids, following blood tests, have improved my PMR- shoulders and neck no longer hurt. But if the weakness and pain do recur, it affects just one area only now (one leg/hip). Is this the experience of others- that just one area can become a problem again, leaving the others OK?
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EileenH Herbo
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I've had both, both were treated with cortisone jabs here in Italy. A rheumatologist in the UK asked me just this weekend if I knew of many other doctors in the UK who would use this approach as it seemed the best way to her to approach such a problem and she is a PMR specialist. Here, GPs happily give such injections - I never asked my GP in the UK so I don't know if thatis an option or if you would have to be referred to the rheumy clinic.
PMR pain proper tends to affect both sides - it may appear in one side first but the other side usually follows soon after.
shawn99 Herbo
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I am on 30mg of Pred and still have some slight pain in my hips, both of them most of the time, but occassionally one. There is no regularity to this happening.
I have had an MRI done on my hip area and everything appeared to be good.
Maybe you need to try a slightly higher dose of Pred for a few days to see if it helps.
Check with your Doc first, hopefully he is open to suggestions.
Cheers
debbie27473 Herbo
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jennissw Herbo
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Thinking back however, I had that type of hip pain long before the PMR and I would say, after reading up on it when it was suggested to me, that I do and did have trochanteric bursitis. It is worth considering. I am amazd how many people have this who then go on to get PMR.
EileenH jennissw
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cindy63197 Herbo
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EileenH cindy63197
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IS your AC problem proven arthritis? I was told my joint pains were OA on the basis of examination, no scans - there is no evidence at all of OA and the hand and knee pain that was blamed on OA definitely wasn't.
pauline36422 Herbo
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as mrs o and eiileen suggests