Briefly, I was diagnosed with PMR last summer and have been on prednisolone every since, gradually reducing my dosage. I saw a rheumatologist (private) in January and he was surprised I was still on a high dosage of prednisolone and queried the original diagnosis of PMR. He suspected something else was going on, quite correctly as it turned out.
After extensive x-rays I have just received the following text from my doctor:
Dear Mr ...........
your knee x-ray shows severe osteoarthritis. You may benefit from steroid injections or an orthopedics assessment for a knee replacement.
So I either have PMR and osteoarthritis or just osteoarthritis. I'm not too impressed with my doctors and don't think I'll get a straight answer from them if I ask. So is there any way of telling what's happening. I suspect not, but I'm asking just in case.
Strangely, my knees are quite painless today and I've just had a session on the x-trainer.