First, joint and muscle pains, then blindness in an active older woman
Symptoms that were relieved by a two-week course of prednisone flared when the drug was tapered. Mrs. E, a lively 70-year-old, developed aching leg pains so severe that she had difficulty standing. She next developed right wrist pain and bilateral shoulder pain, limiting her ability to put on her blouse. Except for an erythrocyte sedimentation…
