Sally
Help! I've been reading some of the messages and would love to hear some reassuring reactions. I have just been diagnosed as having pmr and have had two days taking 20mg of prednisolone (or prednisone - is there a difference?). I have to admit that my first reaction has been one of euphoria, because I have a name now for what has been really getting me down for the last month - yes, that's all! But it has been rapidly getting worse and is now quite incapacitating and depressing. But surely a treatable condition is far preferable to the other alternatives going through my mind - I'm sure everyone knows what I mean. So has anyone got any good news to help me? I am only 51 and until now have been fit, healthy and very active (and slim - I dread getting fat). Only two days into the medication and already I feel a little better and actually slept right through the night last night - bliss! I look forward to any replies.