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pauline36422
pauline36422

well i dont know weather its called   arm or shoulrd lol   but the only pain i have is at the top front of my arm.    it only bothers me when during the night. i must lay funny.  any ideas  folks

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  • ptolemy
    ptolemy pauline36422

    Posted

    If the pain is in both shoulders and at the top of the arms it could be Polymyagia Rheumatica. I had trouble moving my arms even to scratch my nose before I was diagnosed. It is excruciatingly painful. What you describe does not sound like polymyalgia, but I may be wrong.
  • diana21296
    diana21296 pauline36422

    Posted

    Mentally try not to lie on it in the night putting strain on it.  I get pain in right hip where I had bursitis if I  feel myself lie on it, so try really hard not to.   If I don't lie on it I am absolutely fine.  Worth a try. Good luck!
  • EileenH
    EileenH pauline36422

    Posted

    Funny that pauline - I have a sort of cramp pain in my right bicep, Currently there isn't anything I'd say was PMR except that maybe. Today it is better - even though I usually feel it when using the mouse but I've used the computer less the last few days since a daughter is visiting. Maybe it's a message...

    Something that is irritating is a pain just in the hollow of my right collarbone - and that is worse overnight. 

    I dunno - maybe we're just falling apart and don't want to admit it!

    • Juno-Irl-Dub
      Juno-Irl-Dub EileenH

      Posted

      Strange story here also.  For a few days now I have been getting morning light soreness in both biceps which mostly goes within an hour. Not sure whether it's related to my snail-like slither from 3.0 to 2.75mg Pred. (no fun breaking 1mg. into quarters!). Am only at - one day 2.75, four days 3.0 . . .  
    • Tastyron
      Tastyron EileenH

      Posted

      I'm having the very same thing in my collar bone Eileen. It's there about 75% of the time and it is what I would call a deep round pain as it is sometimes hard to put a finger on it. Although it's not a pain as such, I find it wears you down after a while. 

      I have also been getting earache but that is the same, just deep but not a sharp pain at all. I'm on 25mg prednisolone since Jan4th and am just starting to split the dose. Took 20 this morning and will take 5 at ten tonight. 15/10 tomorrow and see how that might help. I still have pain in the shoulders and neck but hips and knees are well.

      Does everyone find that they are extremely aware of their bodies and do we all bore our spouses silly with every little interesting post or fact that I find? Or is that just because I'm a man do you think?.

      Ron

    • EileenH
      EileenH Tastyron

      Posted

      I think I always was pretty aware - according to my Bowen therapist at least I am. I'm assuming this collarbone discomfort - it's hardly worth calling it pain - is because my back isn't entirely happy and I need a Bowen session or two but xmas got in the way.

      No - it's a waste of time telling mine anything! He was a clinical scientist and, apparently - we (I and the girls) were told - wonderful with patients. We couldn't say we'd noticed if we were ill...

  • pauline36422
    pauline36422

    Posted

    thanks to you lovely people.    still no wiser tho    but its only one shoulder/arm   no big deal really, i have  had lots worse pain on my pmr journey  hopeing i am near  the end of it now    but i have said that before.  hope this time i am correct x
  • LayneTX
    LayneTX pauline36422

    Posted

    My PMR pain in shoulder area started in front, was tender to touch, then moved more in the rotator cuff/deltoid area, now it kind of starts at rotator cuff then refers forward and down upper arm. Sometimes the left bothers me more sometimes it's the right. 

    My left big toe tendon gets painful sometimes, PA said that was a flare, sometimes the right does a little, but mainly right.  So... who knows, could be PMR. It does bother me at night to sleep on, so I often stretch it out under the pillows. 

    My right hip also is my painful trocanteric bursitis area.  

    In fact I have been digging up some nasty sticky weeds last two days and now...ugh...it hurts. I'm putting ice pack on it though I know it won't help, but just maybe this one time it will!!! wink ha.

    hopw you shoulder pain goes away. 

    • Silver49
      Silver49 LayneTX

      Posted

      I am having pain in my right big toe tendon and a bit in my left. Am just heading to bed and not looking forward to another sleepless night but relieved (sorry) to find someone else with the same problem. I don't know where to put my feet!
  • Anhaga
    Anhaga pauline36422

    Posted

    If you live in a climate like mine, I'd put it down to snow - clearing car windshields even if you don't have to shovel out the driveway can be enough to make our pred-weakened muscles hurt.rolleyes
  • pauline36422
    pauline36422

    Posted

    no snow  clearing  so cannot  blame that.  lanee   that could be gout in your toe. my hubby gets it from time to time, and cannot stand the weight of the  bed sheet on it.

     

    • Silver49
      Silver49 pauline36422

      Posted

      No....not gout.....my husband has it. I have bunions and hammer toes on both feet.....genetic predisposition in our family. The steroids took the pain away but I am reducing again and may be suffering the consequences. I slept last night. I think the pain is worse when I do particular activities!
    • LayneTX
      LayneTX Silver49

      Posted

      Doctor said my toe pain wasn't gout either. Said it would hurt even worse if it was gout! Wow!

      I reread my post above and see I wrote confusing stuff, meant to say I put my arm under pillow if my shoulder hurts when I sleep on it. Not my toe, ha, ha.  But yes, sometimes the blanket weight on my toe bothers me. Fortunately I'm a side sleeper, and my Bowen gal always has me drape my toes off table if I'm on my tummy. When I need to relax my back and lay on tummy I'll do that, ahhhh, feels better. wink

      Glad we don't have gout! 

    • Silver49
      Silver49 LayneTX

      Posted

      Yes. I must admit I had a wee smile imagining you with your toe under the pillow. I was trying to work out where the pillow was.....pillows at both ends of the bed!!! I agree. I am glad we don't have gout as my husband suffered a lot with it prior to medication.
  • veronica81435
    veronica81435 pauline36422

    Posted

    My PMR started I think with my frozon shoulders which came on slowly with no injury .the Injections worked quite a bit but after about 3 to 4 weeks leter it always came back with bad pain. The pain never went all together.  Then after about 3 years my right hip started hurting . All the best with your recovery . 
    • EileenH
      EileenH veronica81435

      Posted

      I doubt it really was frozen shoulder - PMR often appears like that and should be thought of, especially if it is both shoulders. It is a common mis-diagnosis. The clue is also in it returning after steroid injections. PMR often starts in one place and then spreads out - and it can take a long time.  

      Some doctors say PMR strikes overnight - but I think that when that happens you can often look back and see herald signs over weeks before but sometimes over years. It is also common for the diagnosis to be made after a steroid injection for something else results in an improvement in other aches and pain or - as in your case - steroid shots working for only a short time.

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