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Old 03-28-2017, 07:03 AM
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I met with my new neuromuscular neurologist yesterday. This is the type of doctor who manages people with my condition (small fiber polyneuropathy).
For those of you who have been following our story, my nervous system was "attacked" in 2013 and by 2014, I was debilitated for 6 months with excruciating nerve pain, muscles spasms, and severe dysautonomia. With in this time period, my daughters (now 6 and 13) were telling me that they were having shooting pains, numbness, tingling, dizziness, etc. By 2015 we all started getting a reaction to the sun that caused vasospasms under the skin of our legs that is diagnosed as a type of levido reticularis and is indicative of autonomic dysfuntion.
That is the long story short.

The geneticists and rheumatologists put us in the heritable genetic connective tissue spectrum of EDS, with possible autoimmune activity.
Yesterday it was officially told to me that it is EDS type 3 (hEDS), and definite autoimmune process at work on top of it. It has been narrowed down now, and our case is no longer considered idiopathic. As far as the trigger that caused the autoimmunity (we were pretty ok before 2013), we might never know, or know how to fix it. I must admit that I am sad, but still won't lose hope that our neurological symptoms can heal- although I might be delusional because it's been over 3 years now. They do not want to treat with immunosuppressants or anything that can quiet this down, because they want to watch and wait.
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