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After 18 months I had reduced down to 7.5mgs. I had a hip replacement 29/12/14, but have had pain again in both shoulders, doctor put it down to op. After using crutches not so sure awaiting results of blood test leves this week any observations

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Using crutches will make shoulders hurt - especially if they are the wrong length. But the stress of an op could also have woken up the PMR dragon for the moment - others I know who have had hip ops found they could reduce better after the op was done and dusted, almost as if the hip pain had aggravated the PMR.

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Lionking, the cause could be one of two things, firstly the stress to your body due to the surgery having caused a flare in the inflammation, or, as you say, the crutches having put strain on the shoulder muscles which are probably already weakened from the long-term steroids. Either your GP, a good physio or an osteopath should be able to rule out whether the crutches might have caused a rotator cuff injury (quite common whilst on long-term steroids for PMR). Meanwhile, perhaps an increase to 10mg for a few days might provide the answer as to whether it is inflammation due to PMR, even if the blood tests prove unhelpful. Good luck.

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Thanks for your replies

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