I have been reading the PN forum for about 10 years because of my PN, and now I've added MG because of my husband's recent diagnosis. He had rheumatic fever as a kid and had to spend a year in bed--he's 82 now and they didn't have antibiotics back then. However, he has to take an antibiotic prior to any dental work, even a cleaning, now because they have learned that sometimes there's a kick-back to the rheumatic fever which has caused heart attacks in some individuals.

I contacted MrsD in a PM and told her about my husband and she suggested I ask Annie3B which antibiotics he should now avoid becauses of the MG. The dentist has been prescribing some form of penicillan in the past. The only other medication he takes is eye drops for glaucoma.

The neurologist who diagnosed him from a blood test is talking to him about IVIG and "a little bit" of prednisone--so I've found the threads about IVIG especially informative.

Joan