--though I feel badly for the reasons you're here. Unfortunately, your story is not all that uncommon among us neuropathy sufferers.

None of the diagnoses you've gotten are exclusionary--in fact, CIDP is often thought of as the more chronic, slower onset form of GBS by neuropathy experts/researchers--and there are many variants that don't present "classically", and therefor confuse doctors who are not real experts.

A number of people have found Mayo better for rheumatological issues than for strict nurological ones when it comes to determining neuropathy causes--the Jack Miller Center in Chicago, Johns Hopkis in Baltimore, the Cornell Weill Center in NYC, and Massachusetts General in Boston all have big research programs in neuropathy and seem to be more up on the latest trends in the area.

I imagine you are a difficult case. But your syndrome does sound like a post-infectious autoimmune molecular mimicry situation. The trick would be to determine the extent of your damage and to see if you could get more immunomodulating therapy to forestall more attacks--CIDP and its related variants tend to be of the relapsing/remitting variety (they're almost like a peripheral nervous system analog of multiple sclerosis).

I see herekitty has given you our neuropathy forum link here--please come over if you haven't already, and we'll put our brains together (we have considerable brains here--this place may be the biggest non-physician thinktank on neural conditions that exists, with much hard-won expertise ). I would love to know just what testing you've had--especially neural autoantibody testing, and what it has shown/not shown. And you should check out the Liza Jane spreadsheets (www.lizajane.org) when you get a chance--these were put together to provide an exhaustive listing of tests for neural symptoms, to suggest new ones to doctors, and to track trends over time.