wrist pain flare

[Beinkc]

I started on 20 mg and had tapered to 9 mg. Right before I was to go to 8mg I started waking up to my wrists being sore as if I’d sprained them. By noon they felt better. My dr told me to go up to 9mg for two to four weeks. It’s now been three weeks and there’s been no change to the wrists. I went up to 10 for a week and still no change to the wrist pain. My question to those who may have experienced this, do I hold tight at 10 hoping eventually the wrist will get better or do I go up another mg? I can live with this wrist pain, but I want to continue tapering and I’m afraid I’ll get other areas flaring.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

It is difficult to say whether the wrist pain is PMR threatening to flare - it always has been for me - or whether maybe there is something else going on, like osteoarthritis.

I'd have been inclined to try the flare protocol. 1mg rarely sorts something like that out whereas a good burst of a higher dose often does. We suggest adding 5mg to where you flared for a week or so and if all feels better, drop back to the dose above where you flared.

[Beinkc in reply to PMRpro]

Thank you

[piglette]

Have you tried a pain killer?

[Beinkc in reply to piglette]

Yes, ibuprofen relieves the pain

[piglette in reply to Beinkc]

If Ibuprofen relieves the pain it is quite possible that the pain is not being caused by PMR. As we reduce other pains can start to appear again.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

As PMRpro has said usual advice for flare is higher than your doctors suggested… and if 3 weeks hasn’t cut it, then you need more - assuming it is PMR -

healthunlocked.com/pmrgcauk...

But it may well be something else.. sometimes difficult to know.

Definitely no tapering until sorted though…

[Beinkc in reply to DorsetLady]

Thank you