What are the signs of temporal arteritis?

Head pain: Localized pain over the temple and swollen temporal artery can presage blindness, and even a stroke, and clues can be found with blood tests. The diagnosis may require a temporal artery biopsy. Treatment with steroids can control the process.

Temporal arteritis: Excessive sweating, fever, general ill feeling jaw pain that comes and goes or occurs when chewing loss of appetite, muscle aches pain and stiffness in the neck, upper arms, shoulder, and hips throbbing headache on one side of the head or the back of the head scalp sensitivity, tenderness when touching the scalp vision difficulties blurred vision double vision reduced vision weakness, tiredness.