These sudden and deep pain on the shoulders of polymyalgia rheumatica may make it difficult to get a jacket or combing. The stiffness in the hips and thighs of this disease can do to get out of bed is a painful problem.
The Mayo Clinic Health Letter covers the symptoms and treatment of polymyalgia...
Pain, stiffness, swelling in the joints … they are all well known symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers and, apparently, good reason to sit idle for relief. It turns out that sleep or talk, although it seems impossible, it is the movement and exercise which will make this chronic disease...