21/2 años bajando a 12 mg de pred. Ha sido un camino accidentado reduciendo. No podría haberlo logrado sin Pred, pero nunca ha aliviado todo el dolor. Un buen día para mí es cero norco hasta media pastilla. Un mal día son cuatro medias al día. Según lo que leo, la mayoría de las personas están libres de dolor solo con Pred. Eso sería agradable.
El último mes o algo así siento como si tuviera almohadillas en la parte inferior de mis pies, peor a medida que avanza el día y un dolor leve cuando me acuesto. He modificado mi dieta extensamente pensando que es un problema de azúcar en la sangre. También he estado revisando los niveles de glucosa y la mayoría del tiempo están entre 90 y 110. Enfurecí a mi reumatólogo pidiéndole una derivación a un importante complejo médico en Dallas??? Cualquier sugerencia o consejo útil es muy apreciado. He estado utilizando el método dsns. Estoy en medio de reducir de 12.5 a 12 y como de costumbre, me está pateando el trasero......
I hate that it just seems like it's definitely going to be an on going problem without prednisone. I hate the side effects of it, but it does keep my pain level down.
No, by no means everyone is free of pain with pred - but I'd also suggeset that if opiates help than it very possibly isn't PMR pain you are experiencing. Most people find only pred touches the PMR pain by relieving the inflammation that causes the pain.
I had sore feet similar to that in the early days of PMR. About 5 years ago I had other problems including severe low back pain and was referred to the pain clinic where they diagnosed myofascial pain syndrome with all my back muscles being hard and in spasm and treated it in their usual way. It all made a major difference to the back pain I had, it is now almost non-existent, and also to the way I stood and walked. About a year after it all kicked off my chiropodist commented on the difference in my feet, almost a different shape, far less hard skin and no pressure corns - and they FEEL different. Others have had similar experiences.
Tengo PMR desde hace el mismo tiempo, más de 2 años
Tuve un problema en el pie por un tiempo corto hasta que compré un revitive
Un poco caro pero vale cada centavo. ¡Búscalo en Google! Ya no tengo problemas en el pie. También se puede usar para otras partes del cuerpo
Compré una unidad TENS portátil para la parte baja de la espalda, es muy pequeña y cabe en el bolsillo. Eso también ayuda mucho.
Algunos días estoy libre de dolor al 100%, pero tengo problemas para reducirlo. La semana pasada bajé a 9 1/2, pero después de dos días de malestar volví a subir a 10. Lo intentaré de nuevo la próxima semana
Empecé con 20, así que creo que estoy a la mitad. He encontrado que los reumatólogos no son útiles en absoluto. Ahora veo a mi médico de cabecera que me deja ajustar la pred
I was thinking the same thing Eileen said the whole time I read your question. I have had lower back problems for the last 13 years and have been on a pretty high dose of opiates for many of those years. It was just back in September of last year that I was diagnosed with PMR and it did nothing for my PMR pain. So I wonder too if the pain you're feeling is from PMR. That is not to say that you don't also have PMR but perhaps the additional pain is from yet another problem that is being masked by the PMR
They use a technique called needling where hypodermic needles are inserted just under the skin and small amounts of either lignocaine, saline or steroids are injected there, and both steroid injections into and manual mobilisation of the myofascial syndrome trigger points (in pairs on either side of the spine in shoulder muscles, about rib level and in the lower back about where the baby's dimples are). They are all techniques that stimulate the trigger points (hard knots of muscle fibres) to disperse and the muscles to relax. Similar effects can be obtained by dry needling and intramuscular stimulation - both use acupuncture type needles and no solution. You should find further info if you google them.
You are in the USA I assume - you should find all of those with a google search. I also had a lot of benefit from Bowen therapy - plenty of them in the uS too.
Further to Eileen's description of needling, I have had a similar procedure, called dry needling - same process but no substance injected. The idea is that the electrical signals in the muscles get reset. Oddly enough it did work. A very curious sensation. Sometimes quite painful, like a needle being stuck in your back but other times a sensation like a finger being pressed into the flesh, not painful just weird.