In polmyalgia rheumatica, pain is usually located in the shoulders and hips.

However, prompt treatment usually controls both conditions or polymyalgia rheumatica alone.

Even in the 1970s when my dad had giant cell arteritis as well as polymyalgia rheumatica.

Giant cell arteritis is sometimes associated with another rheumatic disease called polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR).

He also had Polymyalgia Rheumatica which as many of you know is very painful, everywhere in his body.

Onset usually in patients older than 50 years and often associated with polymyalgia rheumatica

Patients are generally over 50 years of age and frequently have a history of polymyalgia rheumatica.

Usually occurs in patients older than 50 and often is associated with polymyalgia rheumatica.

In virtually every case, a person with polymyalgia rheumatica will have an abnormally high red blood cell sedimentation rate.

The excellent response to treatment is so uniform that the lack of dramatic improvement, within days, would make the diagnosis of temporal arteritis or polymyalgia rheumatica doubtful.

The symptoms of polymyalgia rheumatica are moderate to severe muscle pain and the location is almost always in or near the neck, shoulders and hips and can come on very suddenly.