Re: Steroids
Originally Posted by
carol
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I've found out today that steroids is the treatment of choice for my newly diagnosed Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
I know steroids can have a lot of unwelcome side effects.
I wondered if anybody on here has ever taken them?
A good many years ago I was afflicted with symptoms which were alien to me so took myself off to my GP suggesting it could be Fibromayalgia .
He disagreed saying he thought he knew what it could be ,polymayalgia rheumatica [so it's not new]and I'd have to go on steroids straight away and he would sent off a blood sample to be sure .
Uh uh no steroids until I get the results of the test I told him.
When the result came back it was negative !
So I would have been put on steroids for nothing ?
Anyway those symptoms went away but if I presented again with the symptoms I have now a kind of flare up which came on in February this year in my joints to another GP he/she might well suggest the same?
Lots of people are on steroids for one thing and another . They're not flavour of the month by any means!