What is Polymyalgia Rheumatica? (PMR)
An autoimmune disease discovered by Bruce in 1888.
Symptoms: Patients have experienced a gradual exhaustion “flue-like” suddenly overwhelming them including fever, weakness and often weight loss appearing a week or two before onslaught.
Additional symptoms: includes deep neck pain; shoulder pain; pain in yoke area, spine, legs, hips, hands and pelvis. Persistent morning stiffness is prevalent.
Onslaught: Often overnight. At times slow discomfort particularly when sleeping: patient feels pain in yoke and hips that can awaken the patient suddenly.
Diagnoses: Rheumatologist and Internists are recommended to evaluate patient conditions. There is no reliable diagnostic tool PMR is often misdiagnosed
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