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Old 05-04-2012, 04:09 PM
wbdolphin wbdolphin is offline
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Default I'm not the only one

I had my flu shot on October 26th, and my first ptosis symptom appeared on October 28th! I was at an opthamologist by the next week and was diagnosed with MG within another week with positive blood test. Got to a neurologist, he ordered a cat scan that showed a hyperplastic thymus. Told me it needed to come out, so we decided to do it before the end of the year (for insurance reasons). Started plasma exchange on Dec 15, had transternal thymectomy on Dec 20 and went home on Christmas Day. (could have gone home on the 23rd but developed arrythmias and had to stay). My thymus ended up being 4 1/2" by 4 1/2" but no cancer.

My point is (and I do have one), I am so glad to read that someone else "developed" MG after a flu shot. Well, not glad that they got it too, but you know what I mean. Each doctor has told me that the flu shot had nothing to do with it........I'll always wonder if and when the MG would have appeared had I not had the flu shot.
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