Just asking

[Oldnets]

With a flareup of Polymyalgia can you just get the stiff painful upper thighs when walking and not the neck shoulder stiffness?

[SheffieldJane]

Yes certainly I would think it was a flare beginning. Are you tapering down at the moment?

[Hidden]

My legs are where l usually feel the muscles tighten first, my quads go so tight then usually the upper arms start with tingling/burning!

My thighs are invariably my ‘weather vein’ of possible trouble ahead!...........

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Yes, my current flare started with just sore thigh muscles after walking - it all has to start somewhere!

[Marilyn1959]

Symptoms started with thighs in my case, which threw early diagnosis out of the window! It was only about nine months later when symptoms went to above the waist that PMR was considered. So yes, definitely sign of a flare in my view.

[Janstr]

My PMR started with thigh pain, that I described at the time as feeling like lactic acid after a long hike; however I hadn't been hiking & the pain didn't go away after a couple of days. I couldn't get my legs over a stile, but had to manually lift them with my hands. If I had this pain again, I would definitely suspect a flare

[Harbel in reply to Janstr]

Mine started precisely the same way.

[Marcy47]

Yes, mine has always been only in thighs and hips.