Day 3, 4 and the weekend rolled into one

latest blog.. I hope you enjoy

gilbertsonsteroids.blog.com/

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[piglette]

Anne, I love your blogs, they are great. You should make them into a book when your PMR goes into remission.

One thing you should not take Ibuprofen with steroids as a rule of thumb, they are counterindicative.

I look forward to your next blog.

[Hidden in reply to piglette]

Interesting, thank you piglette.

[piglette in reply to Hidden]

In fact Ibuprofen does not really help PMR but it may help another pain you may have of course.

[Hidden in reply to piglette]

My Rheumatologist said take it if I need to, but of course if I just pop one or two its not really going to be effective. I have some low dose codeine which I thought I would take if really feeling it after some exercise for example

[piglette in reply to Hidden]

Codeine is fine with steroids but again does not help the PMR sadly.

[SusanEleven in reply to piglette]

I take an ibuprofen now and then for my sinus headache pain, which basically shows up when the barometric pressure drops. No fun. And as I taper my pred my osteoarthritis is also being unmasked, reminding me it's still there. Before I was diagnosed with PMR I was confused as to why neither Tylenol or Ibuprofen worked on my new shoulder and hip pains. I found out why, though PMR was not the answer I was looking for at the time :>)

[Hidden]

thank you x