So I went to a new rheumatologist yesterday as my GP will not continue to treat me with pred. after the first rheumatologist said that I do not have PMR with normal blood tests, so I should be taken off the pred. that the GP put me on. The new rheumatologist said the same as the first one:I need to taper off pred. and get sick again, as they do not believe it is PMR when I have/had clean blood tests, and no signs of bursitis or synovitis in my joints (I had a PET-scan a year ago). I pointed out that PMR is the muscles, and he then said that it was an old fashion view, and that the word "polymyalgy" was misleading . PMR is NOT vascular either (also old fashion) - it is in the joints!! That is the new orange. This is apparently the consensus here in Denmark, so without elevated inflammatory markers OR synovitis there are no objective parameters to support the PMR diagnosis.
He also pointed out that PMR will NEVER give muscle atrophy even when left untreated for a long time - nor muscle twitches, so I should go back to the neurologists. I am speechless..... Has anyone heard of this before?