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Polymyalgia Rheumatica Polymyalgia rheumatica tums is a disease that causes severe pain and stiffness in the neck, shoulders and hips muscles. The polymyalgia rheumatica manifests itself in people over 50 years and is twice as common in women than in men. Its cause is unknown. Although causes pain, polymyalgia rheumatica does not cause weakness tums or muscle tums injury. Sometimes it manifests itself simultaneously with temporal arteritis tums (giant cell arteritis). Symptoms and diagnosis polymyalgia rheumatica causes severe pain and stiffness in the neck, shoulders and hips. The stiffness tums worse in the morning and after periods of inactivity. Muscular symptoms may be accompanied by fever, general malaise, weight loss and depression. All these symptoms may appear gradually or suddenly. The doctor bases his diagnosis on physical examination and results of laboratory tests. It is not necessary, in general, tums a biopsy of muscle tissue, but if made, does not show any evidence of muscle injury; electromyography also shows no abnormalities. Blood tests can detect anemia. Generally, the only abnormal result is the sedimentation rate, which is usually very high. The amounts of creatine (high in polymyositis) are normal in polymyalgia rheumatica. Treatment polymyalgia rheumatica, in general, tums considerably improved with a low dose of prednisone (a corticosteroid), but in the case of the temporal arteritis higher doses are needed. When the symptoms subside, the medication reduces gradually to the minimum effective dose. Prednisone may be administered to stop in most cases within 1 to 4 years, although on some occasions the administration of a lower dose is needed tums for a longer tums time. Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs produce a smaller relief.
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