PMR & IBD connection

[Yealink]

Curious to know if anyone has developed IBD after being diagnosed with PMR?

I was diagnosed with PMR in January this year and have now been diagnosed with Colitis after having a horrendous 7 weeks and awaiting treatment. I was curious to know if the two are connected in any way.

Thoughts greatly anticipated, thank you.

[Rache]

I had horrendous IBD. Tried changing to Famotidine (Ranitidine alternative) instead of Lansoprazole and so far, fingers crossed, it seems to be working. This is in spite of the fact that I took Lansoprazole for 6 years prior to this, without any such effect. Would never have believed it would be the culprit. I had blood and stool tests which showed no infection. Not sure what meds you are on but maybe one of them is the culprit.

[Yealink in reply to Rache]

I'm only taking 5mg Prednisolone for PMR, I stopped all other tablets in case any of these were causing the bowel problems, and now I'm waiting to hear from the hospital as to what treatment for IBD. I went two weeks ago for a colonoscopy. I was just curious to know if IBD was a part of PMR, maybe the two aren't connected.

[Rache in reply to Yealink]

Sorry I don’t know the answer to that. Hope your problem is solved soon.

[ParsnipSoup]

I had problems also which I just put up with , it finally got too much with a course of antibiotic for a UTI. I stopped Omeprazole before hand I was always suspicious it wasn’t helping. I now take a probiotic especially for bowel

problems with excellent results . OptiBac Saccharomyces boulardii .

I take a maintenance dose of one or two capsules daily .

[jaycee444]

I have Ulcerative colitis but was diagnosed 2 years before symptoms of PMR showed up.

[piglette]

I take coated pred and have never had stomach problems.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

I don't think that there is much evidence that PMR and IBD are connected directly or specifically but there are forms of autoimmune arthritis which involve the gut. And there is a link to autoimmune disease in general:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

Also, PMR isn't the disease - it is the name given to a set of symptoms caused by an underlying illness and there are several. PMR has been said to be the presentation for ulcerative colitis:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/226...

[Yealink in reply to PMRpro]

Thank you very much, I’ll look into this further and ask questions, maybe it’s been IBD all along and not PMR!

[LCfan]

I had ulcerative colitis for about 12 years, treated with varying doses of prednisolone, until it got so bad I had to have a total colectomy or removal of my large bowel. Nearly 30 years later I was diagnosed with PMR! so I've got the other way round! Back on pred again but lower dose. Maybe both caused by stress ?