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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MargaretR" data-source="post: 1867270" data-attributes="member: 157443">There isn’t a specific test of polymyalgia (unless things have changed in the last 5 years). It’s diagnosed by looking at inflammation markers in the blood (ESR and CRP). They will be high if it’s Polymyalgia. However, other conditions can cause them to be high as well. I’ve had polymyalgia for about 10 years, but it has now been replaced by rheumatoid arthritis. The steroids that I was prescribed for polymyalgia brought on the diabetes 2. Recently I thought the polymyalgia was coming back, aches and pains in the legs, shoulders and especially the small of my back. The distance I could walk decreased to about 25 yards.   And I kept falling asleep during the day, and sleeping 10 hours at night.  Then my Gp tested me for Vitamin D defiency, and it was indeed very low.  I’m now halfway through a 7 week course of high dose Vit D, and gradually the aches and pains are going, and the distance I can walk is increasing all the time.</blockquote>

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