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                        Did anyone look into Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)- also an auto-immune disease that is helped by prednisone  PMR is usually diagnosed by a sedrate (ESR) test- with PMR the sedrate is very high, but will go down when prednisone is taken. Good luck.