I don't understand the workings of the immune system well enough to grasp the difference between autoimmunity and immune deficiency - can they overlap? I'm full of a yeast infection just now and no matter what I try - natural or medicinal - it won't clear up?

My small fibre neuropathy (idiotic and pathetic in equal measure!) is flaring properly for the first time this year. It is worse than it's ever been before. I felt as if my entire length of legs and arms had been dipped in a pure acid bath all night. I'm in shock this morning! I've been building up to this flare for about a month but nothing prepares a person for this kind of onslaught of pain��������