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Resolved Question: What is Polymyalgia Rheumatico and how is it treated? What are the symptoms?
Resolved Question: i need info about post polio syndrome and polymyalgia rheumatica?
Resolved Question: Is there any cure for Polymyalgia Rheumatica. If you have pain across your shoulders all day what can you do?
Is there alternatives to taking steroids
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I’m 23 and i am getting this, there is no family history. I know these things start somewhere but…Resolved Question: Anybody find relief from pain from fibromyalgia/polymyalgia besides pain killers?
Possibly any alternative treatments? Thanks!
Anyone tryed adding Guafenisin for pain and/or […]Voting Question: Polymyalgia rheumatica?
I saw my dr on Friday for symptoms including:
-sore thigh muscles
-sore hips
-difficulty walking
-sore hands
-unable to grip with hands
-no strength in hands
-short term memory loss
-blurred vision
-sore shoulders
-sore neck
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Resolved Question: Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) anyone know anything more about it?
My mother in law has this and has been taking steroids for it but they dont seem to help much, she is so stiff in the mornings that she can hardly move, has anyone else had this condition and how do you cope with it , it has made her very low.
[…]Lack of Association Between IRF5 Gene Polymorphisms and Biopsy-proven Giant Cell Arteritis.
CONCLUSION: Our results showed no association of IRF5 rs2004640 and CGGGG insertion/deletion polymorphisms in the susceptibility to and clinical expression of GCA.
PMID: 19918036 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: J Rheumatol)
Related PostsLack of Association Between STAT4 Gene Polymorphism and Biopsy-proven Giant Cell Arteritis.CONCLUSION: Our results do not support a major […]The clinical course of polymyalgia rheumatica in Chinese
Abstract Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is diagnosed based on clinical features that may overlap with other rheumatic conditions like
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Furthermore, a proportion of PMR patients may subsequently evolve into RA. The aim of this study
was to examine the clinical characteristics of PMR patients in a Chinese cohort compared to a Caucasian series. Patients […]Longitudinal examination with shoulder ultrasound of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica
Conclusion. Subclinical inflammation detected by US persists in most PMR patients despite glucocorticoid treatment. PDUS may be useful to detect at diagnosis the patients with most active inflammation who have a higher risk of relapses/recurrences. (Source: Rheumatology)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - […]
Adverse events of low- to medium-dose oral glucocorticoids in inflammatory diseases: a meta-analysis
Conclusions:
The risk of adverse events depends on study design and disease. Studies on inflammatory bowel disease were often of short duration with frequent documentation of adverse events which resulted in higher adverse event rates whereas, in studies of rheumatoid arthritis, the longer follow-up may have resulted in lower adverse event rates. In most studies aimed […]Voting Question: Is it possible for people with polymyalgia rheumatica to have sharp pain in all the finger bones?
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