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Old 01-03-2007, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by jccglutenfree View Post
There is Whipples disease, a gastrointestinal thing that can cause systemic and neurologic symptoms. I don't know much about it, but it is discussed in an article I have on the neurological manifestations of gastrointestinal disease. It is a rod shaped bacterium, I think.

Long shot? I don't know enough about it or your symtpoms to make a guess~
http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/68/1/2

Cara
Oh yeah, Mystery Diagnosis did a show on a man with that. He was very secretive about his health issues and was embarassed by his symptoms so his doctors had a devil of a time helping him. It was a shame since it progressed quite far.
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