What are the symptoms of polymyositis

The most common symptoms of polymyositis are clinical manifestations such as muscle weakness and pain in the muscles of the proximal extremities. Some patients show symptoms such as panting and difficulty breathing if they show respiratory muscle involvement. If they show swallowing muscle involvement, they show difficulty swallowing food. Polymyositis patients also show lung involvement, patients will be active after asthma, dry cough as the main clinical symptoms, at this time do chest ct often will suggest interstitial lung disease. For polymyositis patients, some also show myocardial involvement, patients mainly show chest tightness, chest pain. In this case, it is easy to mistake it for coronary heart disease caused. Patients with polymyositis who present with these symptoms may need corticosteroids to relieve their symptoms, and a diagnosis of polymyositis must exclude a tumor.