Has anyone come across a connection between a severe sternum injury and subsequent MG? A couple years ago I was in a huge car accident, and amog other injuries, had a "comminuted fracture" (which means not a single break, but a fracture in the form of a crushed or crumbled area) of my sternum, right where the seatbelt crossed your upper chest. There were no real internal injuries, at least according to the CT scans.

But shortly after the accident, I noticed that at certain semi-reclined angles, and laying flat, my breathing was affected, and since then it has just gotten worse. Also, breathing when laughing or coughing was affected, still, if I laugh hard, I suddenly find I can't breathe at all--everything just sort of stops working, until I consciously stop the laughing, stop trying to breathe, just deliberately hold still for a bit until things recover and work again. My shortness of breath is now pretty much constant, almost anything I do gets me huffing and puffing. (like sitting upright, like standing up, like talking while standing...). Some days are worse than others. (Don't worry, if it ever goes from concerning to alarming, I will call 911. But it has been going on so long now, I know that I just sit back and consciously breathe deeper to get things back to right.

My eyes are so screwed up at this point, I really cannot search the internet anymore. I check email, and a few sites significant to me, like here, but after 5-10 minutes the headaches start, so I have to quit. So I'm hoping someone here may have run across this question, and can tell me some info?

In a few days I finally get to my appointment at Yale, so they can decide if it really is MG or whatever else it could be (local doctors are useless, my AChR was negative, and the EMG run by a local ws negative, therefore they say it is not MG, and will not pursue further testing. Nor will they pursue whatever the heck it is, if not MG. Have waited 7 weeks for this appointment, and it is 4 months since the day that, on top of all the breathing and other eye things, I woke up one day with one eyelid just dropping closed all on its own). But I can't say I have much faith in ANY doctors at this point, and I would like to know for myself if there could be any connection.

Has anyone got any info on whether a traumatic sternum fracture can affect the thymus or MG? As another factor, I make keloid scars, inside and out, like crazy. It's two and a half years since the accident, and I am still making more scar tissue in my shoulder where a collarbone fracture has led to scar-tissue caused thoracic outlet syndrome.