Burning Pains

[WaltzG]

Is burning sensation/pain normal with PMR?

[123-go]

Although burning pain has been mentioned here before, there doesn’t appear to be a definitive answer. Best to ask your GP/rheumatologist.

Do have a look in ‘Related Posts’ to see what others have said.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Burning pain where? Skin, feet and hands? All the time, now and again?

[WaltzG in reply to PMRpro]

Hi Feet a lot but not PMR .....burning around back and shoulders. Now and again ...thanks

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to WaltzG]

Feet it could be signs of neuropathy though I'd expect that to be fairly continuous. Sudden "explosive" burning could be erythromelalgia:

my.clevelandclinic.org/heal...

I find my back burns in the shower when hot water runs over it - and by hot, I mean it was fine on my front.

[WaltzG in reply to PMRpro]

Many thanks .....Good to know that not PMR flare ..be well

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to WaltzG]

Who knows - but there are alternatives and it doesn't SOUND PMR-ish ...

[WaltzG in reply to PMRpro]

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[Hidden]

Yes I get a sense of burning through my legs and hips. Gers worse when I have a flare. Goes away when not.

[WaltzG in reply to Hidden]

Thank you

[Wonderfullifeandmore]

HI yes I get a terrible burning sensation in my upper left side of back near shoulder. My Rheumy gave me a pred injection which has kept it at bay for a month now. By the way I am not on daily steroids. Am being treated for inflammatory arthritis with Hydroxychloroquine.

[WaltzG in reply to Wonderfullifeandmore]

Hi thx ..that's used for RA usually think? Is it helping you? The burning I get is mild but wide spread over back and torso. Get it in feet too but that predated PMR

[Darkchocolate1]

At times I have had burning pain in my legs and lower back during a PMR flare, the burning in my shoulders however, is from compressed spinal card bulging disks in cervical spine . Shown on MRI no easy way to tell the causes of all our pain. Non PMR pain for me is helped with Tylenol or norco. PMR does not respond to those. Sometimes this is a clue.

[WaltzG in reply to Darkchocolate1]

Mine is shoulders and back mostly.... thx reply