Since my post about granulomas (in June-doesn't time fly) I have been diagnosed with PMR (Poly Myalgia Rheumatica) which is being treated with the steroid Prednisnolone.
The granulomas have all but gone!! and they were quite large. I had managed after a lot of persuasion to get a proctologist to see me with the aim of burning them off with a diathermy lance, but of course there was nothing for him to do- I felt a right fool. But in his letter to my GP; copied to me, he did say that it is Murphys law that they will return.
So it seems that a course of steroids can reduce or even dissipate granulomas.
I can now get on with my vastly improved life. I am on a constant high (Whee, hee) due to the steroids, have plenty of energy, have no pain and free movement has been restored. A friend asked me how I was, my reply was, "It's almost worth having this ailment to feel so good"!
I do know though that PMR can take anything up to 2 years to resolve itself. "It comes when it wants to, and goes when it wants to" a fellow PMR sufferer said to me. I have joined a local support group and am receiving much enlightenment from them.
Hope this post is not too late, I recall being asked for a progress report.
Cheers.
Jandap
The granulomas have all but gone!! and they were quite large. I had managed after a lot of persuasion to get a proctologist to see me with the aim of burning them off with a diathermy lance, but of course there was nothing for him to do- I felt a right fool. But in his letter to my GP; copied to me, he did say that it is Murphys law that they will return.
So it seems that a course of steroids can reduce or even dissipate granulomas.
I can now get on with my vastly improved life. I am on a constant high (Whee, hee) due to the steroids, have plenty of energy, have no pain and free movement has been restored. A friend asked me how I was, my reply was, "It's almost worth having this ailment to feel so good"!
I do know though that PMR can take anything up to 2 years to resolve itself. "It comes when it wants to, and goes when it wants to" a fellow PMR sufferer said to me. I have joined a local support group and am receiving much enlightenment from them.
Hope this post is not too late, I recall being asked for a progress report.
Cheers.
Jandap