Hello everyone, Im a newbie here! So please bear with me. I need help like no other. I will start with my story and take it from there. Back in June I got real sick and thought I may have the flu? Weird I know as its June! But I was fatigue and sick my body ached, I had a bad cough that wouldnt go away. I went to the doctor she said I had a bug of some sort. I started to feel a little okay so went back to work for a few days, by the end of the week I was ready to fall over.
I couldnt breathe, I couldnt talk becuase my throat had got so irritated from coughing I assume? They did blood test of every sort. The news came in that my ANA was positive at 1:160 and it was of a nuecloar pattern?
Doctor ran more test and now its comming back Neg for Lupus and scalderma, Please disregard the mispellings, Im moving pretty fast with typing just to try to get an answer....lol... I recently developed a rash that was small little white heads all over my upper half of body, and my left arm has gotten very heavy feeling with numb finger tips. I told my doctor and she now thinks I may have post nasal drip and an axiexty problem?! I cant believe this, I know the way i feel is not me, I am so confused because she said one thing one week and another the next, I cant get in to rumy till Sept 10th! And Im going crazy, this cant be in my head ... I know what Im feeling and I feel like my doctor thinks its a joke.... PLEASE HELP!!

buttercup1975

Hi- I just wondered how your shoulders feel overall compared to before this happened to you. Your left arm feels heavy to you. Can you lift it over your head? Does it get worse when you do?

Might be worth looking into: http://sites.google.com/site/jccglut...oimmunedisease

I had some crazy neurological symptoms that took me forever to trace back to a gluten sensitivity caused by Candida. Good luck.

Please let us know? I truly hope you aren't stuck in a hospital etc...w/all THAT entails!
Let us know, Hugs and hope! - j

I haven't had any new developments other than the rash coming back after my meds for it ran out... this has also got me thinking that there is also something my body is trying to tell me - right? My left arm is still heavy and the tips are still numb, Im still coughing, still clearing the throat - of what idk... and my fatigue is still there. I have the drive just no energy to do anything. Its really weird, I could sleep for 12 hours and have no problems going back to bed for another 4 or 5. ive been test for Lupus, scalderma, lyme, rumitoid along with other idk blood test all came out NEG except ANA positive at 1:160 and she also told me I had a unique pattern of nucleolar - not sure if thats how it is spelled. . . Im grabbing at straws now.

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Autoimmune conditions and diseases have one cause and one cause only, the combination of fructose and a sensitivity-inducing agricultural protein like wheat gluten.

After you have stopped ingesting both substances for about three weeks, if your symptoms aren't substantially eliminated, then get back to me.
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Hi hang in here. Get a new dotor. ther are many eastern western doctors who will test you for these things. Gluten -celiac disease docs are reluctant to check there is a hospital that is dedicated to Celiac disease. i hope you feel better-you are not crazy.. what you feel is real and you neeed to find a doc who will help you they are out there.

Hi buttercup, I sincerely hope you are better by now. I think there are other reasons other than diet for auto immune diseases. I went to mayo clinic years ago, when I developed alopecia universalis, total hair loss, the worst of three forms of the auto immune disease. My degenerative joint disease followed with osteoarthritis. Mayo sugested that you can indeed come in contact with a pathogen such as contaminated ground water. Some of the auto immune problems are very obscure also. If you cannot get to the bottom, please consider going to Mayo clinic. They provided me with the latest research and tools I needed to help myself. I hope they can find out what is wrong with you soon.ginnie

Hello, I am new too, just one week. I cannot answer you question, but I rarely think our symptoms are in our heads. Thay can be the doctors answer when he can't find out what is wrong. Do not give up. It may take another doctor in a different field. People on this list may have more suggestions for you.Good luck and I feel blessed that I found this list

Hello, and I am sorry you are going though alot. I was so amazed at the information brought to your thread here this a.m. One of my conditions is alopecia universalis. In my case an auto immune deficiency according to mayo clinic in l980. I know it is one specific antigen causing it. I do know from research these conditions are and can be complicated. I wound up in endocranology and derm people for that. I entered an experimental program with DNCB. All the immune diseases take alot of in depth studies. I really wish you the very best and I hope they find out what is wrong with you. Symptoms for the most part are not in our heads. ginnie